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The Earthbound Report 
Thanks for your gift – Here’s mine. Hope you like it. A great little poem found in a newspaper. It twice mentions God, but I changed it to suit all. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
THE GREAT JOURNEY
WE’RE all on a one-way journey
Through the perilous landscape of ‘Time’,
It began here on Earth when first came the birth
Of man from primordial slime.
There is no going back on this journey
And it takes us from cradle to grave,
Traversing its length will take wisdom and strength
So we’ll need to be steadfast and brave.
The journey is long and demanding
The transport a sobering sight
The mirror will tell what we know all too well
Reflection will show that I’m right.
The maps for this journey are sketchy
The signposts oblique and obscure,
There are guidebooks, it’s true, which are read by a few
Though strangely most travellers ignore.
We’ll need help and support for this journey
And we travel one day at a time,
We’ll face deserts and seas, thick forests of trees
There are steep rocky mountains to climb.
There are rose-coloured paths on this journey
And they promise to primrose the way,
But beware of these byways and stick to the highways
These slyways will lead us astray.
We’ll meet gurus galore on this journey
We’ll find hucksters and shysters abound,
There are plausible ‘prophets’, who for a small profit
Will show us a ‘shortcut’ they’ve found.
There are phantoms to face on this journey
Dark demons of doubt and delay,
In the bleak black of night there are spectres to fight
Hobgoblins to face day by day.
But if we are true to this journey
And we travel with courage and hope,
The compass of conscience will highlight the nonsense
And teach us the best way to cope.
But what of the end of this journey
When death decides this Is the day?
If the grave is the end, why bother to spend
Our lives on the straight, narrow way?
Ah, but death is the point of the journey
The wisdom for man to discern,
At its pure central core is the one perfect law
That the universe wants man to learn.
So what Is the ‘law’ of the journey
The reason behind the great ‘why’?
That the seeds of destruction contain reconstruction
That life once imbued cannot die.
So take heart and be brave on your journey
This timescape, this great master plan.
For what is this Earth if not death and rebirth,
The paradigm held up to man.
t figure our way out of our consumerist addictions we will eventually have to
go cold turkey. Of all the possible global disruptions, the two most likely are global warming and a super
pandemic. Mining and processing the oil sands wreaks havoc on
the environment.