Deer vs. Pools

As I was sitting out on my back porch/sun room doing some study. I had an interesting visit. Four deer decided to come by and say hi, although ever so cautiously. I just recently moved to this new location and this is still a new experience for me. It isn't the first time deer have stopped by but it still leaves me in awe watching them.

It made think about how much we are missing out with the suburban sprawl. My backyard consists of a forrest no bigger then 2 city blocks but inhabits all kinds of interesting creatures. Most backyards now are the end of other peoples backyards. It doesnt take much to allow nature its space.

Ialso wondered why the deer chose my yard. Do I have extra delicous bushes? Probably not, but as I looked over to my left and right both the yards were fenced in leaving my yard as the only open feeding ground. They both have pools so the law requires fences, but is that luxury worth the cost of an intimate experience with nature, with which we are wired to be a part of? We erect fences to keep out the animals from our gardens as the worms fertilize our soil, we have bug catchers in our yards but kill every spider we see, do you see the irony? Im not saying we should live on grass and dirt but maybe we should rethink some of the technologies we concieve of to keep us away from that dirty, messy and ugly thing called nature. It seems like the more technologies the more problems.

The myth that nature is some seperate entity from us has left us losing our identity as humans for years. Reread God's first command in Genesis to us, we seem pretty connected to me.



**I urge you to read Ishmael if this topic interests you at all