Mother Nature

Back in the ‘60s there was a commercial for margarine, I forget the brand, that said, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”  I feel like nowadays we are being told that we are not fooling but abusing Mother Nature, and that she is fighting back.  The first response on the news about the tornado outbreak was, “Is this due to global warming?”  Thankfully, the metereologist I heard address this question said it was not answerable.  So Mother Nature used to be a funny character in a commercial; not she is real and a feminist and a mean one at that.

Nature is not a mother—a mother is kind.  What do we see in nature that is kind?  Do people really think that nature has only started striking back with floods and droughts and storms in the last thirty years (so typical of this generation—it thinks it’s the first to experience anything, like menopause and old age!).    Nature is further not a mother in that mothers are personal, and nature, the natural world, is impersonal.