Greetings, fellow sentient beings!
How do you feel about food lately? Is it scarce? Is it in excess? Is it going to waste? How about other resources?
Not a macro shot. Unfortunately. But I figured it should not go to waste.
The photograph above was taken when I joined my family in gathering the crops from our village vineyards last week (of which I already wrote a little bit yesterday). I was armed only with a Sony Alpha 6000 camera with a 16-50 mm lens so I took as close-up a frame from this scene as I could. But I was happy in general.
Happy to capture the process of different species mining the same cluster.
It has seen the wasp and the ants. It has seen birds. It has seen time and decay. Then humans came and declared it not good enough for them. Us. It was we who came. We said it was wasted.
Why? Because we could not mine it before the others. We could not protect it from the others who would mine it. We blame ourselves for that waste. But under the circumstances, we accept it as something normal. Unavoidable.
The circumstances...
Old age, great distance, time requirements, attention span, priorities...
So, acceptable. The judgment we passed on that cluster.
Ah, the judgment. But it's so twisted by our irrational standards.
It should look good. It should appeal to the market.
Put a butterfly on it, why won't you!? To pimp it up!
All right, all right...putting a butterfly on it...in a moment...
Same day, same location, different spot.
Camera settings:
Aperture F 5.6; Shutter Speed 1/250 sec.; Light Sensitivity ISO 100; Focal Length 50 mm.
Nothing is wasted in nature. Energy is transformed. Others use what we can't. Actually, it would be a waste if we took it denied others the use of it, but did not use it to good effect ourselves.
I don't know how you feel about food but to me, it's both scarce and... Well, my mind is conditioned to see it as something not guaranteed. And so I eat in excess. I gain fat as I continue to feel hungry. Hunger's in one's soul a wise TV series character once said. It was Famine, one of the Riders of the Apocalypse.
Now, famine, in general, is a lot worse because of the impossibility to optimally distribute food. The world is trying, really trying. I mean Earth, not people. It provides so much and we never should underappreciate its efforts.
The thing is, there are those other factors, created by people, that drive people away from food. Since we often consider what is not ours to eat, a waste. Like children fighting over the gifts of Earth until they destroy them in their quarrel.
I, personally...I was happy to find the ants and the wasp co-mining in peace. They are of the earth that we have claimed as ours without asking them. They have the same right to the nourishment that it provides.
We're working for it but they're working for it, too. Their ways.
Peace!
Manol