“We have met the enemy and he is us” — Pogo. How true that is: often we are our own worst enemy. In nature, creatures have enemies but rarely is the enemy themselves. For example, robins eat worms, as do fish, but worms do not eat worms or even their own castings. There are many examples in nature of predators who have other creatures as their predators, but not themselves. We humans kill each other, and in the good old USA we seem to specialize in violence to other human beings. Sometimes it is under government orders and sometimes it is just out of greed, but we do violence to each other. In nature, creatures have violence done to them by humans and other creatures but seldom by like creatures. (This is a generalization and not 100% true.) However, we humans have a major advantage over creatures in nature. We can love, and when we love our enemies they soon cease to be our enemies. Not that “loving your enemies” is easy to do. On the contrary is it is harder than hating or harming your enemy. It takes a deep faith in the good of human beings, especially our enemies, to “love our enemies. This is especially true for the enemy within. If we are the enemy, then love of self is essential for peace. However, if we do not love ourselves — not in a selfish way, but in a way that sees the good in ourselves and thus in others — we cannot love our enemies or our friends.

I noticed that I have forgotten to give the daily readings from the sunroom the last few nights. This is because I have not taken the time to digest and explain what they mean in terms of energy savings. This is something I should do soon. (I do not like a lot of ‘shoulds’ in life but this is a necessary one.) So here it is for today.

Time: 8pm., Office Temp.: 66, Sunroom Temp. Average: 64.5, Outside Temp.: 44, KWH: 279

Since my last KWH reading was March 9th and was 232 this means that electricity for heating the last four days was about $4.79 — not bad for an unheated 80 sq. ft. room with windows on all sides.

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