Connecting The Dots - Stewardship of our Pale Blue Dot

E149: "And a dot is a beginning" July is Climate Month

A short post this week.

I am a dot

👆 Watch (1:43) or listen 🎧 (1:31) to the podcast episode with the accompanying transcript below 👇

This is what I know:

I am a dot.

• I’m just one human in a world of 7.8 billion

• I exist at a specific point in time, stepping gratefully in the footsteps of those who came before

• Ours is just one of so many species that have covered this same earth for billions of years

• Our world is one planet — a dot in a galaxy and universe that is so wide and spans dimensions

I am a dot.

And like a dot, I believe in connection.
Connecting … with friends, and family.
Connecting … a young generation with their elders.
Connecting … problems with solutions and opportunities.
Connecting … our future with our past.
Connecting … peoples across space, place and time.

I am a dot.

While a dot is small, it is not without impact!
You pile enough dots on top of each other, and suddenly
you have substance and form, weight and shape
which we can choose to use to move towards better.

I am a dot.

And a dot is a beginning.

What will you start today? One word on that book you've been meaning to write? One stitch on a knitting project? One phone call to get out the vote? Share your first dot.

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I am a dot and I believe are previously published podcast episodes and blog posts.
Have you written a personal manifesto, one that propels and compels you to wake up each morning? Try your hand at it. You may surprise yourself with the depth of your convictions.

"Consider again that dot.
That’s here. That’s home. … That’s us.”
— Carl Sagan's “Pale Blue Dot”

Treasure and enjoy this week “on [our] mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam”.
See you next week. Till then, dear Tribe Tilt, stay healthy and happy.

Karena