My weekly theme card for my 52 Cards Project will make more sense when you understand what happened this week. I received a book in the mail that I had pre-ordered months ago. All it took was a quick flip- through and I knew that first, as a project launched by preeminent change agent Seth Godin and created by hundreds, this book is an amazing resource and tool, and second, this is a call I must answer.

Now my tiger’s eyes might make more sense.

Like you I’m sure, I have long felt growing concern for our poor earth. I’ve made some changes over the years to live more “sustainably”, I’ve read up on the climate crisis so I’m quite well-informed, and I’ve wanted to do something—but like most of us, I have felt helpless. What can one small human even do, really, to save the earth?

Well, reading some of this book and diving into just a handful of the book’s further resources found online, it became clear that there is a lot we can do and in fact—it’s absolutely not too late. Not only that, but as I thought about it, I almost feel like I was given a download of action steps that I can and will take. I feel very grounded, calm and resolute. And excited. I will share more, soon.

But in the meantime, since this is my weekly post about my weekly theme card, I’ll talk a little more about why I chose this image. Actually, like a lot of images for these weekly cards this one just kind of came to me. Tiger’s eye? Eye of a tiger?

Of course, with a little inquiry I understood that I was tapping into a human/cultural symbol (made popular by the song and Sylvester Stalone). To be ‘in the eye of a tiger’ is to be threatened by the king of predators—or in our case, the king of existential threats.

BUT, to have the eye of a tiger is to be laser focused on achieving a goal.

Like averting climate disaster, perhaps?