Power

While shoveling i thought about how the shovel moved the snow. Not really the physics behind the act but more or less the principle of the matter. The shovel had power over the snow, the word I used was Sovereignty. Sovereignty is having power over something else, sort of a king and peasant relationship. I thought about this and realized that all power is Sovereignty. Humans have Sovereignty of the world. We use the earth and mine its resources and rarely give back. We are a greedy Sovereign. But at the same time the earth has Sovereignty over us. It throws tornadoes and hurricanes at us and there is nothing in all our power we can do to stop them. A volcano erupts and we run from the lava. A tsunami floods the land and we attempt to pick up the pieces. If the Earth were a living organism much like ourselves it may attempt to have full Sovereignty over the air and choke us with our own breath. But as always in the world there will be Sovereignty.