The Dark (K)night

Last night I went to see the The Dark Knight with Mark. Another Batman movie it explores the fine line between good and evil,asking some interesting questions: Is it easy to be "good" when you haven't experienced the pain of loss? To what extent are we responsible for the actions of others? When given the power to choose, your life or another's, would you end someone else's life? In typical Hollywood style, these questions are imposed on caricatures of people, in extreme situations, so that no one can miss the obvious. We all leave the theatre hoping that we could be the hero required at any particular moment in time.

Well, this is always that moment and it's pretty easy to be a hero...at least it seems as though it should be. At what other point in history are we asked not how could we do more, but how could we live with less? When else instead of trying to fuel our machines with all the energy we can find to go careening into the future, would we be doing more for the world by slowing down? There is a wonderful world waiting to be discovered if we would only slow down and allow our attention to be drawn away from the things that have cluttered our view.

Yesterday I laid on the ground and felt the embrace of gravity as I stared out into the universe. (An exercise taken from Stephan Harding's book, Animate Earth). I wondered what kind of love it takes to not only sustain me with wheat that is grown, sheaved and ground into flour for bread, but the kind of love that would makes something as exquisite as a strawberry or raspberry top it off? It's the kind of love that Batman can't see or feel as he goes flying down the road on his supersonic, highpowered motorbike, through the crime ridden streets of Gotham.

No Heroes
Sometimes the cause gets so big and the issues all get confused,
Sometimes the greater good means that you have to sacrifice the few,
Sometimes the best intentions can create the largest crime,
Nobody gets to be the hero all the time,
Nobody has to be a hero all the time.