Honoring Our Interdependence
( Accompanying text is underneath the video below )

The air around our home has been beginning to spatter with the sounds of occaisional fireworks as people play over the last few days in getting ready for the Independence Day, July 4th holiday celebration here in the USA. Yet, in our home we’re thinking about the deeper blessings of interdependence.

All of us are blessed with being part of the miracle of nature in a constant breath-dance with the trees and plants, being a part of the water cycle of our atmosphere and receiving the bounty of the earth in a myriad of other ways. We are interlaced with nature in every aspect of our lives.

We are also blessed by our human community. While we may have a small group of “dear ones” who are close family and friends, we are nonetheless, intertwined with thousands of others every day. If we learned nothing else from the recent pandemic, we certainly realized how intertwined our everyday existence is woven into so many other lives.

Take our morning coffee and how it reflects our interdependence, for instance.

The first people to touch our morning eye-openers were the farmers who planted and tended the trees for four years until they were old enough to bear fruit.

Next, we have those who hand-harvested the coffee “cherries.”

Next, the cherries go to the processing area, where the cherry pulp is removed from the seed that is the coffee bean.

Then, the beans are loaded into fermentation tanks where the bean is naturally cleaned of any remaining sticky mucilage on their surfaces. Afterwards, the beans are washed.

Now, they are taken to be dried on tables, turned often to make sure they are only 11% moist and then bagged.

Their next step is to be hulled of a parchment layer, polished and sorted by size and weight in machines run by more specialists.

From this point, the bagged green beans go to the exporter who takes all the orders for the beans and organizes shipping. The exporter’s staff creates all the paperwork that follows the importing regulations for each country.

Then, people load them into shipping containers to travel to their destinations around the world.

The bags of beans arrive at a port and are transported again by people to warehouses where they will be loaded again into train cars and trucks.

These train crews and truck drivers take them to distribution points or directly to a roaster.

The roasters now practice their art of coaxing the best flavor from the beans.

From there, the beans get into your kitchen or the hands of your barista where they are transformed into your perfect cup of morning “wake-up!”

(We won’t even start to explain how many people were involved in making the actual cup you drink it from!)

Similar numbers of people participate in everything we eat, drink, wear, travel in or enjoy. Without all those hands and hearts, your life just wouldn’t be the same.

On this occasion while we celebrate independence, we also need to honor that it was our ability to come together as a community that manifested the revolutionary changes we desired.

As shamanic journeyers, when we gather together in community, using the guidance and support we get in our journeys, we can create the next great evolution in humanity.

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