Blue Sky

We don't have anything close to a blue sky this morning, but somehow I managed to wake up in a good mood.

I think it was the talk about glaciers with my students yesterday. The thing about the science GED test is that it's primarily reading comprehension with a few pictures thrown in. Rarely do we really get to discuss science, usually it's just a matter of how they can find the answer. But yesterday one of my students wanted to know more about the image of a geyser next to one of the questions. We talked about Old Faithful, and how she isn't so faithful anymore, and how fragile our world really is.

And yet somehow, despite everything that can go wrong, we're still here. If you think about it, at any time a major earthquake could disrupt the earth, icebergs could melt and send the ocean over the shoreline, a meteor could careen into the earth. Global climate change is an ongoing problem. Anything COULD happen.

And you could choose to worry about it. But somehow the thought that anything could already have happened, but hasn't, is a comforting thought. Life, in itself, is a miracle, and somehow the power of life drives through all difficulty. So even though our world is in peril, we should never underestimate the adaptability and evolution of life.