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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A little to the left

_51667837_51667836 Who cares about the wonder of the world after Japan's earthquake? The images of the tsunami devastation leaves you speechless.

But also the sheer size of what happened also leaves you with few words to say. Japan moved 4 metres to the west, that's 13 feet.

Sat Nav is now going to have to be recalculated because of that.

The earth was shifted on it's axis by about 13 cm (more than 6 inches) and the ocean depth changed by about 1 metre (3 feet).

I've been reading a book about finding places of depth/God/meaning in the world and it comments that we are so busy thinking about where we've come from and also where we are going we have no time to think about where we actually are now. It takes a slower pace to find where we are.

The movement of Japan just makes you pause a bit in our fast living to reflect a moment on the greater powers and bigger picture: to notice those things bigger than ourselves. The size of the shift of the world's plates was enormous but still slow compared to us. Lent: slow down to see what is really big and happening around us, for us, because of us.

Posted at 08:54 PM in Current Affairs, Green Gospel, Thinking |

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