THE THOUGHTS OF ONE MAN
TRYING TO AWAKEN
WHILE HELPING OTHERS TO AWAKEN
BY ASKING THIS QUESTION:
"WHAT IS YOUR SOUL TRYING TO TELL YOU?"

19 July 2012

Rhino Wars: Order and Connection
Just today I opened an envelope from my tenant, postmarked 2 July 2012. It contained a glossy page from a magazine, folded into three sections like a letter, which contained her rent checks for the months of June and July. On that ripped-out magazine page appears the title, "Rhino Wars," and these words of text, "Rivaling the price of gold on the black market, rhino horn is at the center of a bloody poaching battle."

When my tenant posted this envelope, Zafir and I were in South Africa. She never knew we were there, never knew we had been to Kruger National Park, never knew we had seen rhinos there, and never knew we had learned that 281 rhinos had been killed by poachers from January to June 2012 in South Africa alone.


Never before had she enclosed checks in a page from a magazine. Why this page?


Her choice spoke of order and connection. It told me once again that a profound order undergirds what we perceive as chaos, everything is connected, a single thing affecting all things on countless levels.


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