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[[[[This is today's Wolf's Daily Howl]]]]
Hello and Greetings Earthlings ----
This is the 39th Earth Day.
Throughout the history of our civilization, we humanoids have had a distressing pattern of negligent disregard for our actions upon this planet ----- planetary ABUSE.
There's a river near the official HEAL headquarters address that has been running through Connecticut for tens of thousands of years. The Naugatuck River is a small, powerful river that cut its way through stone, carving a breath-takingly beautiful gorge and provides a home to trout and a fishing ground for hawks and even a few eagles.
As recently as the 1950's and '60's, the river was basically a cesspool for industry. As one valley resident recalled, when I did a series on this back in 2000, "You could walk across the river on the car tires that had been tossed in, as garbage."
I've always been a valley girl. I was born in a hospital overlooking the Hudson River. By the time I was twenty, industry and power plants had dumped so much pollution into the Hudson. that it was a stinking mess, a deathtrap for wildlife and a shame upon us who are supposed to have such enormous brains.
In the 1960's, many began to rebel. We rebelled against racial prejudice. We rebelled against gender prejudice. And we began to rebel against an uninhibited degradation of the only planet upon we we can make our home.
And so ----- Earth Day was launched in 1970. I was young, but I was there. My friends were there.
We said things have got to change.
To be frank, most people didn't change much.
Some things improved but even as recently as ten years ago, most people didn't care much. They looked at me as if I was crackers when I arrived at the register with my own cloth bags.
Happily, happily, happily ---- just in the past half dozen years ---- enthusiasm for ecological awareness has begun to really gain a foothold. YYYYyyyyyyaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy.
Well, that's my take on Earth Day and on ecological conservation.
What's yours?
Ilene
Hello and Greetings Earthlings ----
This is the 39th Earth Day.
Throughout the history of our civilization, we humanoids have had a distressing pattern of negligent disregard for our actions upon this planet ----- planetary ABUSE.
There's a river near the official HEAL headquarters address that has been running through Connecticut for tens of thousands of years. The Naugatuck River is a small, powerful river that cut its way through stone, carving a breath-takingly beautiful gorge and provides a home to trout and a fishing ground for hawks and even a few eagles.
As recently as the 1950's and '60's, the river was basically a cesspool for industry. As one valley resident recalled, when I did a series on this back in 2000, "You could walk across the river on the car tires that had been tossed in, as garbage."
I've always been a valley girl. I was born in a hospital overlooking the Hudson River. By the time I was twenty, industry and power plants had dumped so much pollution into the Hudson. that it was a stinking mess, a deathtrap for wildlife and a shame upon us who are supposed to have such enormous brains.
In the 1960's, many began to rebel. We rebelled against racial prejudice. We rebelled against gender prejudice. And we began to rebel against an uninhibited degradation of the only planet upon we we can make our home.
And so ----- Earth Day was launched in 1970. I was young, but I was there. My friends were there.
We said things have got to change.
To be frank, most people didn't change much.
Some things improved but even as recently as ten years ago, most people didn't care much. They looked at me as if I was crackers when I arrived at the register with my own cloth bags.
Happily, happily, happily ---- just in the past half dozen years ---- enthusiasm for ecological awareness has begun to really gain a foothold. YYYYyyyyyyaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy.
Well, that's my take on Earth Day and on ecological conservation.
What's yours?
Ilene
I think, at least I am seriously hoping, that the enthusiasm and awareness is part of an overall awakening of our spirits....That as we seek to find our true, best selves, and live in a more spiritual way, we also are seeking to take care of our surroundings.
I have thought for a long time now that there is huge shift in the energy on this earth...that people are trying to become connected to each other, and I hope to all living things...in fact, all things, of this earth, and to treasure each other, and this earth.
At least, that's what I hope, that's what I pray for, it's what I seek to do.
This is some of the awakening that has for me, arisen out of the abuse, the pain I was in. And it is a gift I have been given, a treasure that I hold dear to my heart. No longer isolated, no longer suffering, I feel a huge connectedness to all living things...
I too, celebrate that things are changing in this direction. It is good, it is all good....
Thanks for this post....Hugs!