Guernica is how the Bear is feeling in the aftermath of the US 2024 presidential elections. Everything she loves is being SMASHED! She doesn’t know yet if she can pull in her heart. However, she is a fighter so she may find a way to scrap herself together though she is worried for her friends…
The Blue-eyed Bear has lost hope in humankind with the US elections pointing to back sliding on green energy commitments and Cop29 being largely a copout to big oil. The climate scientists say the world has already hit the 1.5 degrees C. mark this year 2024 that was supposed to be the heating limit agreed upon in previous climate talks. The B-E Bear will focus on what can be saved but you humans your on your own!
The wren is a feisty gleaner eating insects of various kinds. The Bear thinks its great to have its little friend see what it can find on the Bear body…YUM!
The Bear has explored many belief systems and gods this is the first that is willing to feed her! See the book of the same title by Elizabeth A. Johnson subtitled “Meditations on God and the Earth” 2024 Orbis Books, New York.
In 2023 the Blue-eyed Bear applauded the release and rescue of Guard Dog a Mutts comic strip character (see Mutts.com). Patrick McDonald the creator of Mutts broke the chain that had been holding Guard Dog in place for over 30 years and used the event to great affect to promote the release and rescue of all chained dogs. Patrick also release another of his characters in 2023, Sid the Fish, to much less fan fare. Sid lived in a plain bowl in Millie and Frank’s house and often interacted with Mooch their cat; all are Mutts characters. The BE Bear’s check of the Mutts.com online archive suggests that Sid first appeared in the Mutts comic strip in 1995; so Sid has been in captivity almost as long as Guard Dog had been chained. To Patrick’s credit and Mutts stated purpose “to promote animal welfare everywhere” he illustrated the drudgery of Sid’s captive life as an example of little cruelties when maybe humans think they are helping. Below is a Mutts strip showing Sid in his bowl from April 27, 1996. In his 1995 appearance in a Mutts strip, Sid laments that there is a God as Frank feeds him for the first time.
The BE Bear drawing above is the Bear’s imagining of Sid’s release back to his fishy family. Unlike Guard Dog whom Patrick remained Sparky and gave him a fine home, Patrick doesn’t share what happened to Sid after his dramatic release by a superhero Namor in the strip on July 19 2023. Still, Sid’s release is a great example of “emptying the tanks” for all creatures such as dolphins and orcas that belong in the wide ocean not small bowls or tanks. The BE Bear says let us work toward this release in 2024 using this little fish in a comic strip as our example. Yes, maybe it will take a superhero to gain their release.
In anticipation of Halloween the Blue-eyed Bear and friends are getting ready for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin! In this world of climate crisis the Bear thinks Linus Van Pelt, the Pumpkin Profit, may adjust his theology a bit and lose the idea that the Great Pumpkin will bringing toys to good children (too commercial). A focus on the Great Pumpkin’s need for sincerity from each of us to do the hard work to care for this Pumpkin Patch Earth is best. With sincerity the Great Pumpkin will surely continue to rise!
In homage to Charles M. Schulz who started it all!
The Blue-eyed Bear encounters the Burning Bush aka YHWH as part of her canvassing all the many aspects of God for help with finding a safe home for herself and all creatures great and small in this time of Climate Crisis. The Bear acknowledges the promise of YHWH’s covenant with all Creatures in which YHWH loves and takes great delight (Job chap.38-39). The Bear prays: “Please give humans the capacity to see all creatures through the eyes of God so that each may find their true place as part of the
beloved multitude!”
As the world is heating up and the ice caps are melting the Blue-eye Bear is going deep with friends, the only way to go. Borne by an ocean of matter will the Bear find for what she is looking? Go, Go, Go Beyond, Go Beyond the Beyond, Enlightenment… Go Bear go with love for all Creation.
The Blue-eyed Bear is finding some new friends in South Africa! Did you know that the Dung Beetle, Scarabaeidae, was sacred to the ancient Egyptians and was immortalized as the scarab a symbol or rebirth and regeneration. The beetle also represented the sun god Ra rolling his orb across the sky as the beetle rolls his poop ball cleaning the environment for the many African animals and providing food and a home for its eggs. Different species of the dung beetle are found all over the world but recent scientific investigations in and around Johannesburg SA have found that the dung beetle gets his dung ball home by orienting his roll to the Sun and Milky Way!. The dung beetle is the only known animal to orient to the Milky Way making it truly a celestial being. The BE Bear thinks that’s a great idea and will try to incorporate those celestial alignments in her quest for a new Home!
Also see the children’s book Steve the Dung Beetle: On a Roll by Susan R. Stoltz and Mellissa Bailey 2022 Pygmy Giraffe Publishing Phoenix AZ,
A Christmas Sea Serpent and a prayer for the new year? Yes this drawing in pencil is what I call Bear Scratchings (The cross is made from five claw scratchings, which bears do quite often). The serpent theme or symbol of the Christ manifest is a nod to such symbolism found in the Book of Kells a 5th century illuminated Gospels from Ireland. The serpent symbol may go back to John 3: 14-15. Jesus is quoted as saying he will be lifted up as the serpent was lifted up by Moses. The three circling serpents are also a nod to the Greek Caduceus, which shows entwined snakes as a symbol of healing. It is also a nod to the Ouroborus a symbol of wholeness as the sea serpents are eating the small fish as the small fish are eating the sea serpents. All of which are held to gather by the Bear Scratching cross. The Blue-eyed Bear definitely prays for wholeness and healing as we move into the coming year.
Start a conversation that’s what Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist, says is a way the Bear can make a difference in this climate crisis. Not to be acusitory but the bear thinks each human has to begin to make a difference cause ONLY YOU CAN STOP THIS CLIMATE CRISIS by caring. If you care say something PLEASE!
Adventures of the Blue-eyed Bear 