EARTH: MY HOME

I admire Webster, but his mixing of science and religious narrative seems to be at odds with each other.  He states that Earth is a "terrestrial globe" and then goes on to quote the Genesis creation story which is more in line with a flat earth understanding.  

Growing up in my family, I was never exposed to the "flat earth" ideology.  My grandparents had a globe and that was the narrative I was raised with.  I didn't know that "flat earth"was a thing until I was in my forties and I was introduced to someone who held the opinion that the earth was not a globe.  I looked on line to find that there are a few people riding this planet around the sun that don't know the kind of car they are in.  It must be like riding in a Ferrari and believing you are in a Volkswagon Beetle.  Maybe if one had the opportunity to venture outside the car, they might be able to see that it is a very different ride, but most people that ride this planet don't have that opportunity.  A handful of people have left Earth's atmosphere and seen the Earth from orbit.  No one has to convince them that the Earth is a globe.  

Maybe there is enough evidence (there's that sticky word again), that the earth is "the third rock from the sun", not a pancake in space.  I haven't seen it aside from pictures, so I have as much proof as the flat earthers have.  I just don't believe in a flat earth.  I like the idea that we are on the ride of our life, circling the sun at 107000 kph.   

The Earth is my home.  It's my only home.  I have no dreams of Heaven any more than I have dreams of moving to Mars.  Both are inaccessible to me.   This rock in space is where I started my life's journey and it will be were I end it.  

There are so many elements of Earth that have enriched me that I want to share in the following chapters/posts.   Maybe I'm a naturalist.  Nature is where I find my soul.  Nature is where I connect with the energy that gave me life.  Nature is the voice that speaks to my mind when it is troubled.  I feel kinship to the elements from the living breathing elements to the more stationary elements.   I'm still not comfortable with labels, but maybe the closest I can come to defining myself with a common label, would be that of a naturalist.  I just wish I had known that decades earlier.  I would have paid more attention in Biology class.