I started the New Year with my morning coral reef climbing workout that allowed me to look at the waterfront with my environment sector cohort, assess the environment, marine life and shoreline as well as, get my muscle building training started. I will use the information gained from these workout sessions to inform our environment club’s recycling projects and lesson plans for this year. The effort required adroit, focused, careful navigation of a difficult and dangerous terrain. In the end however, the exhilaration of having accomplished the completion of the 2 hour workout of my mind and legs was priceless. My dedication to life this 2017 and ad Infiniti, is to finesse difficult and dangerous terrain with the poise and focus of a skilled, intentioned affirming disposition. Feeling powerful, focused and guided. Aww the awe-inspiring majesty of nature’s raw, organic beauty is indeed unmatched.
I cannot say enough of how important it is to control, limit, heal the environment from our global footprints. Nature is globally beautiful in all its permutations. As citizens, indeed global citizens, we have a duty to preserve all of nature, not just in our specific part of the world, but wherever it is found, whether we individually ever lay eyes on it there. It is in fact this nature, and all it encompasses, that nurtures our existence as a species on the planet we now occupy. Let us be reminded of how fragile this space is, and the responsibility we each have to the posterity of the earth and our human species.
As I assess the legacy of my service to Jamaica, in Jacks River, St. Mary, I think about the education environment, I think about the social environment, the physical environment, the cultural and the psycho-social environments of the people I serve. I am reminded of my commitment to the people of Jamaica, the people of the United States, and my membership in this elite group of “do-gooders” who sees the proverbial global glass as half full and, in so doing, allow themselves to be placed in countries across the globe, hoping to accomplish their sustainable mark of goodness in the world. As I go through this, the first week of the new year, I recommit in 2017 to the mission of the three goals that is the why of my existence in Peace Corps Jamaica. I recommit to doing my small part in the larger Peace Corps ocean of, peace, relationship and sustainable development, globally.