if the earth

If the Earth

were only a few feet in diameter,

floating a few feet above a field somewhere,

people would come from everywhere to marvel

at it. People would walk around it marveling at its

big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing

between. People would marvel at the bumps on it and the

holes in it. They would marvel at the very thin layer of gas

surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people

would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of

the ball and at the creatures in the water. The people would

declare it as sacred because it was the only one, and they would

protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the

greatest wonder know, and people would come to pray to

it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and

to wonder how it could be. People would love it, and

defend it with their lives because they would

somehow know that their lives could be

nothing without it. If the Earth were

only a few feet in

diameter.

Joe Miller Moab, Utah 1975

Isn't that interesting, the felt mouse is posting green stuff