Worms renewing the soil

Early to rise and late to sleep is the story of my day. We got up at 5am to take my wife to the hospital for her hip surgery. All went well but I had to depend on coffee to keep me going. It is now past 11 pm, after the Packers lost to the Bears and the coffee is wearing off. Soon I will be sleep.

I heard bits of news today. There was a major financial firm that pleaded guilty to “inside trading”, robbing of millions of dollars. I doubt if anyone will serve time since the Supreme Court said corporations are people but do not have to serve time for robbery.

A major pharmacy company made an out of court settlement of billions for falsely presenting to the public two strong psychiatric medicines they provided. No matter the money they made, the lives they hurt, there is no admission of guilt and they just give back the billions they made on this scheme and again no one goes to jail.

This big corporations and people may get away with, as our government does, major crimes. It bothers me but then I think of all we have to be grateful for. I knew how grateful Darwin was for earthworms but it was not until the other day when I read an article in a magazine that I knew of how Darwin was obsessed with earthworms near the end of his life. He wrote about earthworms: “It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.” (Smithsonian, Feb. 2013). Darwin knew the greatness of these overlooked tillers of the soil.

The leaders on the top of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul Milwaukee refused to talk to the loyal employee of the store who was fired after 25 years of service by a phone call when she was on sick leave. The real inspiration to the Society in Milwaukee is not in the Central Office which eats up and wastes our monies but in the people at the bottom, the people we serve. This injustice. like others, angers me but then I think of the greatness of these people we serve in the society, poor and marginalized and overlooked. They, like earthworms to the soil, renew the face of the earth.

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