"Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance.
As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures from the crawling ant
to the leaping antelope." -Mufasa
"But, dad, don't we eat the antelope?" -Simba
"When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass and so, we are all connected in the great circle of life" -Mufasa, The Lion King
The Lion King is hands-down my favorite Disney movie, so it's none too surprising that it was top-of-mind in the midst of a little "Circle of Life" moment yesterday afternoon.
After writing about and contemplating the death of a Peace Corps Ethiopia staff member, I emerged from my home for the first time in the day to a crowd of people from the compound gathered around the cow pen. I eventually moseyed over to find that the compound's dairy cow, whom I call Tractor (a nickname bestowed upon the beast by the PCV who lived on my compound from 2009-2011), had just given birth. I knew Tractor was preggers, and that she was pretty much ready to pop at any time, but it was pretty nice to have a first-hand brush with the miracle of life so soon after the heartbreak of death. I suppose if you switch out "antelope" for "cow" in Mufasa's statement of wisdom to young Simba, it fits the situation perfectly.
"But, dad, don't we eat the antelope?" -Simba
"When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass and so, we are all connected in the great circle of life" -Mufasa, The Lion King
The Lion King is hands-down my favorite Disney movie, so it's none too surprising that it was top-of-mind in the midst of a little "Circle of Life" moment yesterday afternoon.
After writing about and contemplating the death of a Peace Corps Ethiopia staff member, I emerged from my home for the first time in the day to a crowd of people from the compound gathered around the cow pen. I eventually moseyed over to find that the compound's dairy cow, whom I call Tractor (a nickname bestowed upon the beast by the PCV who lived on my compound from 2009-2011), had just given birth. I knew Tractor was preggers, and that she was pretty much ready to pop at any time, but it was pretty nice to have a first-hand brush with the miracle of life so soon after the heartbreak of death. I suppose if you switch out "antelope" for "cow" in Mufasa's statement of wisdom to young Simba, it fits the situation perfectly.
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| Proud mama (human) and the new baby |
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| The new baby, chillin' on some grains |
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| Proud mama (cow) |
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