turnip jumper

While driving through the countryside the other day I saw sheep eating turnips. Attention was grabbed by a feeling of Interbeing and Oneness. A sheep is a turnip's way of becoming a woolly jumper. The connecting steps include:-

turnip – sheep – shepherd – wool mill – woolly jumper

But each step is part of another set which is part of another set:-

soil – water – seed – farmer – weeding – harvesting – turnip

comet wipes out the dinosaurs – mammals evolve – sheep are domesticated – shepherds ensure that the sheep are well fed, healthy and safe from predators - sheep provide meat and wool

sheep's wool processed – wool spun into thread – thread dyed – thread fed into giant weaving machines – wooly jumpers advertised and distributed

Life is an ongoing process of churn. The energy from sunlight agitates materials (atoms) which for a while are part of living things (biotic phase) and for a while are part of the non-living environment (abiotic phase). “Round and round and round in the circle game.” (Joni Mitchell)

For some fascinating examples Google for [biogeochemical cycles].

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