This film-short views “tolerance” from the perspective of the Earth as a living organism, and “being” that may have had to exercise great tolerance toward human beings, as humans have, particularly in the last century, shown an ever-increasing lack of respect, and carelessness toward the earth; our home. Just as human beings of differing race, color, and religious belief deserve each other’s respect, which at times requires “tolerance,” or the act of voluntarily choosing to regard others as ourselves, so-to the earth then, deserves the respect of human beings toward her. At the core of the disharmony we now see on the planet, evidenced by toxic waste being dumped in our water sources, a cocktail of chemical poisons in every breath of air we breath, chemical pesticides sprayed on our food sources, and global warming threatening the balance of the natural world; our home, is the fundamental error in thinking we human beings are separate from earth: Independent, and not interdependent. Its abundantly clear if one is paying attention at all, human beings have “missed the mark.” In our hubris we have forgotten the earth is our home, and even our mother, as most tribal cultures consider earth to be, and as such, we must repay our mothers with gratitude, respect, and honor for her gift of life. With these well-known images of earth as home, and mother juxtaposed with images of ill-health on the planet today, it is clear human beings have lost the profound, and necessary connection to earth that is required to achieve balance, or “homeostasis” and health.