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This year, the spring equinox was on Sunday, Mar 20 at 11:33am/Eastern Daylight Time.
Note how specific that is.
As soon as it happened, as soon as the Earth was balanced, tilted neither toward or away from the sun, it immediately went out of balance.
The Earth is “walking” around the sun. Each Earth Walking “step” takes 6 months. For one precious moment, the Earth is balanced and then immediately it tips out again.
Just like human walking. Just like everything.
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In the iconic 1970 Monty Python sketch, Ministry of Silly Walks, John Cleese opens the scene with his ostrich-like silly walk to his office. He meets Michael Palin who is looking for Ministry grant money to develop his own silly walk.
After watching Palin’s walk, Cleese looks at him and says, “That’s it, is it? It’s not particularly silly, is it?”
The Monty Python Silly Bar is high, to be sure. And I would argue that the body’s bar for silly walking is just as high.
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If the foundation of a human body is – in able, upright bodies – the feet, what is the foundation of a human life? If our feet allow us to stand in stability, to move toward some things and away from others, what in our lives allow us that same stability and mobility?
Values are our foundation.
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Imagine approaching a new bridge that crosses high over a rocky river. It’s just been built with all the latest engineering: thick steel cables suspend from solid towers which support a sturdy concrete deck. As you are about to drive onto the structure, the lead builder leans into your window and says, “Yep. We gave all our attention to building this baby. Except for the foundation. We didn’t do much with that.”
How enthusiastically would you take a drive across this bridge? How much trust would you put in its strength and stability?
In human body architecture, our foundation is our feet.* Our modern life-style and culture, however, is anti-balance and anti-feet. Not only does modern life pay little attention to our foot foundation, it actively encourages us not to use it.
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Blueberries. Black tea. Balsamic vinegar. I love them all. And recently, they landed me on the bathroom floor in a pool of toothpaste.
I enjoy blueberries, black tea and balsamic vinegar every. single. day. With abandon. Some might even say excess. A fact that is not lost on my dental hygienist.
“Hmmm, are you using a manual or electric toothbrush?” she asked when I saw her recently. “Manual!” I said proudly since I’m all about my badass brushing skills and the low-techness of my equipment.
“Well,” she said, pulling my gums back and peering around. “You might want to consider an electric. It would help with the staining.”
Oof. As much as I love all my “B” foodstuffs, I do not like the dingy teeth that go along with them. Upon reporting this exchange with my beloved, he said, “MY hygienist said the same thing!” And with that, he was on it: researching and then buying fancy schmancy electric toothbrushes complete with special whitening brush heads.
We could hardly wait to use them.
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