On the first day
14 July 2009
On the first day, God created the Rock, the sea, the trees and the beaver, because the beaver is a good engineer and invented the freezer (what have beavers ever done for us?), and s/he saw that it was good but a bit cold. S/he created an artist to sit in this place and wonder at it and try to figure out how to represent it.
On the second day, God created mechanics and the Green Team, a bunch of disconsolate teenagers employed for the summer by the Newfoundland Government to wander around National Parks and learn about invasive species, and s/he created Minke whales to cheer them up.
On the third day, God created ecologists; and porpoises and icebergs for the artist to wonder at.
On the fourth day, God created salmon and black bears.
On the fifth day, God created Lion’s Mane jellyfish and caribou lichen.
On the sixth day, God created double rainbows and Moose. And the moose did bark or growl, or perhaps just had bad indigestion.
On the seventh day, God decided s/he had been pretty busy, and decided to spend a couple of days resting out at a cabin on the coast with no electricity and only patchy radio coverage.
The artist gets to do all of this too, she has decided she is in any one of, or perhaps all of the heavens. The sun is shining, the air is warm, she has plenty of food and is meeting wonderful, generous, helpful people.
She has not forgotten you, and you are entirely within your rights to feel completely jealous, but she does send her love.