By Lee Nan-hee
It has been fairly lengthy since I realized about ecology or ecological theology. Ecology is a thought that pursues conversion of ideas from human-centeredness to preservation of lifetime of the pure setting in addition to all dwelling beings in it dealing with destruction of nature. This ecology has been mixed with girls’s research or feminist theology and led to eco-feminism or eco-feminist theology. These ideas analyze and criticize that destruction of nature and discrimination in opposition to girls are co-related with one another underneath the patriarchy or ruling system.
Elizabeth Johnson, the pre-eminent lady theologian, made it clear that deterioration of the pure setting is carefully related to marginalization of ladies and a selected dogma of Christianity in her e-book “Girls, Earth, and Creator Spirit.” Johnson factors out the system of dominant ideas of the West dubbed hierarchical dualism. This respectively divides God/pure setting, human beings/nature,world, man/lady and thoughts or spirit/physique, and tends to place extra emphasis on the previous of every pair and belittle the latter of every pair. In accordance with this thought, nature or the world is known primarily as materials with out thoughts or spirit. As well as, it’s taken without any consideration for males in a ruling class to regulate or rule girls and nature. Conversely, Johnson presents mutual-relatedness of all species of life in the entire world internet. In different phrases, she suggests a mannequin of kinship bond through which human beings and nature are co-related with one another in a neighborhood. She pursues not solely human-centeredness however loving relationships of all dwelling beings in addition to stewardship of sympathizing and caring.
Whereas I might get quite a lot of perception from her books, nowadays I really feel this ecological conversion by means of small issues in my each day life. Summer season, particularly lingering one in every of this 12 months 2024, is vanishing eventually. Excessive temperatures round 29 diploma Celsius have continued even till the tip of September. This have to be the results of world warming and excessive climate.
Feeling the vanishing summer season in my pores and skin, I look intently at inexperienced flowers and colourful flowers round my home. I really feel grateful to timber and flowers that they’ve endured the lingering, scorching warmth along with me. What a aid that they didn’t dry up or burn to loss of life in that sultry climate, that they stood it and gave inexperienced shades to me in addition to folks strolling alongside the roads. When autumn comes, these dwelling leaves and scarlet, pink flowers will wither and fall to the bottom. Although I really feel sorry for that, I settle for it as windfall of the grand, mom nature. For I personally am one half dwelling right now in her enormous arms… I say farewell to flowers.
In lengthy, lengthy summer season
regardless of scorching daylight
two pink flowers endured it,
bloomed absolutely,
and lit up the silent nook of an alley
When it rained cats and canine
with a gusty wind,
flowers folded wonderful petals
and hunkered, holding their breaths,
with their heads down quietly,
believing that the time would come,
although not figuring out when, however sooner
when the rain and wind are gone
as if it by no means occurred,
underneath the shy sunshine
when dews reflecting water-color sky drop on the petals.
When the season goes by once more
and the season comes,
within the silent alley,
the place folks getting back from the market
stroll busily with bought issues,
within the nook of this alley
I’ve to say farewelll to 2 pink flowers
Strolling hectically with heavy groceries,
I say farewell to 2 pink flowers trembling by the cool wind.
on this lingering summer season
in easy each day life
due to you
due to you, it was bearable
Lee Nan-hee studied English in school and theology at Hanshin College.
