Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth

A weekend contemplation...

Mar 22, 2025

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When she's on her best behaviour
Don’t be tempted by her favors
Never turn your back on Mother Earth

Towns are hurled from A to B
By hands that looked so smooth to me
Never turn your back on Mother Earth

Grasp at straws that don’t want grasping
Gaze at clouds that come down crashing
Never turn your back on Mother Earth…

THIS CAME UP ON SHUFFLE while driving home from the market this morning.

I hadn’t played the song in about 30 years, but last week, out of nowhere, I recalled that Martin Gore from Depeche Mode had released a solo album back in 1989, and this cover was included. So, I added it to this year’s playlist.

The American rock group Sparks initially wrote and performed it in the 1970s, but I prefer Gore’s version.

Maybe it’s Uranus square the Moon in my chart, but I find the song’s sentiment a tonic amidst the global chaos that dominates daily chatter (and the occasional psychotic break).

So, through another lens, you can view our culture rupture as something other than garden-variety idiocy and hubris. This is simply another expression of Mother Earth playing chess with the creatures claiming dominion over her realm.

Another nudge towards blowing everyone up—and off of her back. Who says she doesn’t get involved with politics?

Happy Spring (Autumn) everyone!

Love,