My friends are minutes from the international US/Canadian border (Detroit / Windsor), just blocks from the NAFTA highway and these are the scenes they witness outside their window...
Why do politicians talk about saving our environment anyway?!
I was so moved by the pictures I invited them to share their story.
I guess what I want to say that no matter how we fought to save our park it fell on deaf ears. Money was the root of the whole fight. The city and school board didn't want to know that the neighbours liked their small little park, filled with hake berry trees, every type of flying bird, coyotes, raccoons, mice , rabbits and of course the family of deer. Every morning when I open the kitchen blinds, this is the scene I have the honour of seeing.
Birds waiting on the lines,trees and fences for their breakfast, and the deer waiting in the park for their corn. The city has allowed developers to encroach on the lands all around this little ecosystem, with no regard for its life. Then they sell it to the school board to save some other land that was used as a trade off. They say that this is endangered land, but we all know that when the time is right they will sell that off too.(you know when the price is right).
I guess we should be happy with the time we've had with all these beautiful creatures, but I'm a little selfish. When we built here there was a promise that this park was always going to be a park, sad for us the promise was not true. The other day , as I brought my neighbours from around the corner over and sat their little children on a chair to watch the momma deer and her babies eat , I started to cry.
I thought out loud and said you know I know that God put these deer here at this time for a reason. He must want people to see how well animals and man can survive together. These deer have taught us to be patient, kind and most of all to know that God is taking care of them. He will not let the city come in a destroy what he has built. When it is time (His time) that is when our deer will be gone and not before.
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What a beautiful, beautiful post. I soend a lot of time thinking about the animals we push aside to make room for bigger houses and more highways...it breaks my heart.
Well, I just happen to live down the road from the propsed TTC-Texas Trans-Corridor that will open up our state to Mexican trucks to ramble across it unchecked and uninspected.
They could be full of terrorists or illegal immigrants. Who knows? But at they very least they will be destroying a lot of natural landscape and have already began seizing property from people despite the overwhelming votes by Texas citizens that we DO NOT want this monstrosity.
Government used to be by the people for the people. Not anymore.
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