Mr. Yue

Self-reflection

As I read Nurturing Interconnectedness by Williams and Brown (2013) in Learning Gardens and Sustainability and watched The Hidden Beauty of Pollination, Two-Eyed Seeing, Multiple Ways of Knowing and Environmental Decision-Making, and The Animal Communicator, I am reminded about the beautify intricacies of our natural surrounding. As I read Nurturing Interconnectedness, it gave me knowledge; when I watched the The Hidden Beauty of Pollination, it gave me inspiration; when I watched Two-Eyed Seeing, it gave me perspective; when I watched Multiple Ways of Knowing and Environmental Decision-Making, it gave me understanding; and when I watched Animal Communicator, it gave me connection. As professional educator, it important to be cognisant of holism which the reading and videos has taught me. There are many ways to understand, interpret, and interact with our complex surrounding, differing from species to species, and entity to entity. In an era of the Anthropocene, it is often easy to disconnect with our historical ties to Mother Earth. Being immersed, but disconnected in an interconnected ecosystem, reflects the absence of our society to be responsible of our planet, as a whole - not singly. As a child of Mother Earth, we must recognize our footprint, just like how our mother remembers. Our imprints are embedded in the lithosphere; her tears are felts from the rain drops in the hydrosphere; her breath is our atmosphere; and our surrounding is her womb, in the biosphere. Just like how teenagers tend to drift away and disconnect with their family, we must not let that cloud our judgement to be cool. Her winds of exhaling shouts to your name has already cooled your spine. When do we wake up from this lucid dream of benevolence and freedom and wake up? Because, she has stopped to awaken you out of your slumber. All the intermittent winds in our dream are an pseudo-portrayal of her rage in the dying of her light. Awaken, awaken, awaken young one. Gaia needs you.