Mother Knows

The pandemic didn’t start with Samantha, but reluctantly she was the first to go public. World-wide, the people were starving and suffering tremendous pain whenever they ate, but little was being done by the professionals. Misdiagnoses were running rampant and eventually, everyone was forced to suffer in silence, or undergo the unwanted consequences.
Grudgingly, Samantha spoke to individuals who also needed help and this started her personal domino effect, which led to a friend having meetings; an eavesdropping customer reaching out to insane asylums and prisons; and eventually, an extremely embarrassing situation that lead to a radio station host, willing to listen.
Samantha was very alone with the plague. She stumbles on another person that is secretly in pain and begins to compare notes. Then when she gets a job in a bakery she finds the owner is also silently suffering. She informs the bakery owner that there are others like her. When the owner starts having meetings at her house regarding her illness, the cat is out of the bag, so to speak. At this point, Samantha has an idea of how to help everyone.
A fiction BY: PAM BONDY

A Word from the Author

For centuries, Mother Nature has tolerated the human race. Since the day we evolved into human form, we have tried to change the earth to suit us. She’s expanded our brains in the hope that we would learn to live with all she has supplied for us. But we only destroy parts of her in our desperate attempts to understand.
All other animals work with Mother Nature, but humans are never satisfied.
During a storm, animals will huddle under bushes, inside caves, or stand on the wayside as they nestle in close to an obstacle to block the winds, and wait patiently for the worst to pass.
Humans will cut down trees to build a shelter, destroying a little piece of ‘Mother’.
In times of threat and danger, animals will flee, tuck, fight, hide or burrow, until it is once again safe to continue on their peaceful way.
Humans will cut branches for arrows and spears, dig up metals to make swords and guns, and eventually invent bombs to prevent backing down from their enemies. This continues to destroy pieces of ‘Mother’.
Animals go to the river to drink and the forest for protection and food.
Humans reroute the rivers to bring the water to them and move the forest closer or farther for their convenience. ‘Mother could adjust to this, if only there weren’t so many of us, everywhere, taking clear advantage of her, as we continue destroying and hurting vital parts of her.
Animals will have large litters of young, several times a year, and still stay within their allowed population. Mother Nature limits humans to about one child per year and still we managed to overpopulate the planet, stacking people one on top of the other in gargantuan cities. Again, we are damaging ‘Mother’.
‘Mother’ has sent us plagues, famine, killer weather, volcanoes, and earthquakes in her attempt to get us under control. We have always won the battle by destroying her a little farther with our attempts to survive these disasters. It’s only a matter of time before Mother Nature is gone and we all point our greedy little fingers at everyone and everything ELSE as we look for blame. ‘Mother’ is now slapping us with global warming and what are we doing about it? Everything is wrong and nothing right, as only humans do best. No matter what advances in automation and industrialization that we accomplish, ‘Mother’ will surely suffer the consequences.