WE GOT THE WORLD IN OUR HANDS

It's Earth Day today! What does this mean amidst the many allocated days sprinkled across our calendar?  There's a celebration for everything from the President, to Sandwiches to Friends.  Silly silly Hallmark.  They know how to cheat us into even more commercial dumb-down culture as we not only spend but embarrass ourselves into acknowledging that we need bright neon promotional signs to remind us of just about anything important.  We are just so very busy in our day to day living.

Today is not the day the earth came into existence, nor the day that magically we will all stand still and look at one another to collectively harness ourselves into the human race.  It is simply the day to realize a milestone in the year in which to start planning, changing, increasing the way we use this time on this earth, not esoterically but practically. It's about purpose! You can wince at the hippy in me, but why not get the peace signs out and save a cat from a tree.

Make money, buy clothes, go drinking, get stuck in traffic - beyond this measures of our successes and daily grinds which litter our stresses, is this grander backdrop to our being - the very ground in which is walk upon day in and day out!  It's about the elements - fire, water, air, earth.....the whole spectrum that says THERE IS SOMETHING BIGGER THAN US - THERE IS THIS PLANET AND ALL ITS WONDERS!

All across the world today incredible moments are taking place - shop windows have small signs telling you what day it is, trees are being planted, festivals are gathering people with food and soda pop and a host of individuals are commenting on how to make small differences.  They say if you visualize how you want your life to be then manifest it - it will surely happen.  The people over at The Sign could be a cult in some of your eyes, but their point is valid - we are make our beds - and if its a good bed, you could find yourselves lying on sheets of satin with truffles by your side.  Make it bad - and you'll probably get bed bites.

So instead of getting the guilt glad rags on because everyday we forget about Earth Day, politicians, members of society, professionals and everyday folk ear mark today to remember TO GET MOVING!

Philippines:  13,000 trees massacred on Earth Day

The divided debate on Earth Day

Wired magazines' pictures of our planet

Yann Arthus-Bertrand's legendary series of photographs: Earth from the Air

 

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