Something to address here. Lately, I have been waking up at 5:40 am on the dot, but my usual scramble-to-get-to-work-on-time-alarm setting is 6:30 am. Why? And this morning to add to my annoyance at waking before my time, I smelled like I was sitting IN a BBQ. The smoke from the Griffith Park fire that broke out on Tuesday May 8, 2007 curled through the dirty screen in my window and right into my moist brown tresses. Yippee! The smoke also gave me a headache and a stuffy noise... I do complain, don't I? The worst part of all this waking before my time and smelling like a Hickory burger is gazing upon the devastation of Griffith Park on a gorgeous morning of blue skies and crisp air. Inside I cry for every tree, bush, flower, insect and animal that lost it's life in those flames. This is yet another example of the planet being destroyed. "Global Warming" is not some goofy catch phrase, it is a reality that we all are facing. We ARE going to have record heat in California this summer and the severe lack of rainfall in Southern California this year is contributing to the severity of fires we are having. The antithesis of this problem promotes yet another climatological issue in the middle of the United States there has been Flooding and rain storms. The planet's weather has been playing on a seesaw with a big kid and a little kid.
I don't have a glamorous dream to share today, but who cares... The Earth and it's traumas are enough of a fascinating story than looking at a photo and becoming one with it or eating stuffed animals dipped in Au Jou.
I realize more than ever that I need to... Oh...wait! I do have a dream to share that coincides with the the planet's health. I can't remember the exact date, but I had it a couple weeks ago...
I showed up at my parent's house because my sister, brother-in-law, and niece were visiting from Brooklyn, New York. Upon bursting through the front door the first person I saw was my one and a half year old niece Stella walking around with a huge smile on her face. I scooped her up in my arms and asked her, "How are you doing, Stella?" She said matter-of-factly, "I pooped my pants". She snuggled in my arms as I carried her to the bathroom to change her and she said, "Awe, this feels good." When we got to the bathroom I set her down on the floor and asked her, "Do you want me to change your diaper?" She wisely said, "You could do that or we could go green."
Go Green! The child is a freaking genius! At one and a half she was speaking environmental lingo with the rest of us. Most diapers ARE unbiodegradable and are certainly not helping us fight Global Warming. Wow! I know that it was just a dream, but I can't get this concept out of my head. Stella is walking straight into a future that must be paved with ecological awareness. As she grows up, so will this problem unless we all start making a conscience effort to help rather than hurt our planet.
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Maybe we should educate the adults of today so that the little ones, like your niece, aren't sitting in the dark.
I think you are right. It is like the title of this blog "Wake up it is 5:40am!" It is time to wake people up from their misconception that what they do does not count. I know too many people that treat the environment around them with nonchalance and over-consumption. The amount of waste that each individual creates in a day is frightening. All we need to do is just check our cars, closets and trashcans at the end of the day and we'll see how steeped in garbage we are in. It is no wonder it seems that Mother Nature is fighting back with natural disasters.
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