In this episode of „Country Roads” - Movie Series, the weather has turned right around from last week: real sunshine, warm like early summer, around 65 to 67 °F (about 18–19 °C) in the afternoon. Everything is green. But the trees are thirsty. The leaves hang instead of unfolding, and deeper down there is no water for the big trees and the bushes — it has not rained enough for a long time. The grass may still have a little. The farmers are waiting, and so is all that green: one good rain and it would explode.
Nature does the best it can with what it has, and that goes for people, land and animals alike. An apple tree in trouble makes all the more apples, so that the next tree can carry on where it cannot. We have more than that: we can make tools, we can help ourselves out, we can learn from the situation and turn an emergency into something. What we do not see is people moving to prevent the emergency before it arrives. A hard time is coming, and then everyone decides for themselves: pass by, or make something. Nature always makes something. We had better show up the same way — we are part of it.
Then it gets serious, and it stays that way for a while. For living, you need conditions, and as a living being you ought to know what that means: air, water, food, the natural basics. Nobody has to be told they need to breathe. Anyone who does not understand that has no business running an office — you could not run your own kitchen that way. So nobody gets to say they had no clue. They know exactly what they are doing, and the basics are being taken away while everything is kept looking fair. When a sitting president blocks the world economy, or industries decide that people have got too expensive because there are machines, then the money stays where it is and our productivity is not wanted anymore. If nothing gets changed, that is simply the way it goes. If I stop feeding my dog, I know it dies. That is not carelessness; that is purpose. And when it happens slowly, in small steps, hardly anyone notices where it ends.
Our answer is that one person alone does not do the trick. In numbers we are more, and together it can be fixed. If we want a good living, we make it together or we do not have it. And doing nothing is not neutral — doing nothing supports it.
In between there is the road itself: much less traffic, friendlier people, the smell of the fields, a sunrise recorded with the eyes closed and the birds going. Icelandic horses again, riders out. And a rare sight beside the pavement — a bit of dirt road, the way everything was seventy to ninety years ago.
From this ride: 65 to 67 °F (about 18–19 °C) in the afternoon, ground dry and leaves hanging, much less traffic than last week, Icelandic horses and riders, bees and butterflies rare, a stretch of old dirt road.
📺 Also available on Rutube and Youtube:
https://rutube.ru/video/65da61b6fd6292565443e55effa9d4d1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp4JKkcGlYw
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