This is a beautiful exercise. Mother Earth sure does need some loving TLC.
8pm it is.
I will do the washing while sitting on ground, so I can feel the earth, and before hand I give a prayer of thanks all she gives us, and a prayer to the people of the earth to be protective. one example-To learn organic gardening, so one by one we can stop the poison toxins seeping into the ground and then up into all the plants and trees.
I could pray for something different every day because there are as many sins against her as there are days.
Chief Seattle, chief of the Suquamish
. . .Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children that we have taught our children that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
This we know; the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.