Nothing is Inconsequential

Collage with butterflies. ladybug, and other bugs mostly orange, yellow, and green colors. Celtic knot in background

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I’ve been watching the flowering crabapple tree out my window and I worry that I don’t see any bees busily flying from blossom to blossom. If this year the blossoms are not pollinated, I would sorely miss the delicious applesauce made from the annual harvest of crabapples. Barbara Brown Taylor writes in The Luminous Web that “we belong to a web in which nothing is inconsequential.” The condition of the whole is determined by the health and interrelation of all parts.

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