Watch Your Step!

Is it just me or is the rate of sinkholes increasing disturbingly rapidly? One near Pittsburgh,PA is just the latest. Is it aging underground infrastructure or the intensity with which we interfere with the ecosystem beneath our feet? Or is it a case of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon aka frequency illusion?  (I just discovered that term! But back to sinkholes.) From Oregon to Kentucky, from Detroit to Spring Hill, these things are everywhere.

Most people would understandably be frightened or nervous with the ground disappearing beneath them, although others are taking a different approach and trying to incorporate sinkholes into daily life. As I understood it from Biology 101, Equilibrium and balance are not just new age words, but rather the guiding principles behind biological survival. Folks who deny mankind’s detrimental impact on our environment baffle me. The Earth is literally opening up and swallowing us whole.

All the idioms, being down-to-earth, steady as a rock, keeping your feet on solid ground, will cease to make any sense if every step is like the scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.