Saturday, November 15, 2014

Weather Psychiatry

I was reading words on a page and the writer describes the trees swaying from the howling northerly winds, and dark clouds racing across the sky. Speaking to the weather they would simply say take a deep breath, be calm, all would pass soon, as they compared themselves to a psychiatrist, in this case a weather psychiatrist. What a concept, this doctor of mental healing, must come with a diagnosis of symptoms from problems exterior or interior to devise steps toward healing. Maybe fracking and drilling now become like domestic abuse, that creates the breaks and fissures in the faults that generate earthquakes and tsunamis. Transportation that build factories and refineries giving off the huge avenue of contamination to water and air are compared to the many addictions that devastate the lives of many. The colossal hurricanes and flooding are compared to the symptoms of the anger and killing of the innocence in schools and public places. Global warming is somehow related to the inability to return to normalcy of living after the traumas of war, loss from disease, of home and family. It would be a tall order as a weather psychiatrist to solve the World's problems when there are so many trigger points created by the humans that live on its immensity.  Then there is the Power that will never listen to the remedy when greed is more important than future.

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