Hola, All! Do you feel, as I do, a responsibility to help take care of Mother Earth? What if we started thinking of her as a person? Would that change the way we treat her? This morning as I was walking in my neighborhood I picked up a piece of trash, knowing that some kind of receptacle for me to carry it in would appear. That's what happens when I start picking up trash, no matter where I am, something wil be available for me to put the trash in. This morning it was a plastic bag, a very wet plastic bag, but nontheless, a useable bag, the kind you get from a grocery store. Sometimes the receptacles are a large paper or plastic cup, or the plastic bag that the morning paper comes in, or sometimes I put the trash in my pockets (as a last resort). What was the most disturbing was how many plastic water bottles I found. Sure, they can be recycled, which is a step in the right direction, but how do we eliminate our dependency on them? And, think how much better off our planet would be if we treated Mother Earth as a person, and taught that to our children! For instance, teaching our children that throwing trash on the ground (Mother Earth's face) is the same thing as throwing trash in another person's face. What a visual that is! Maybe the key is not only educating people, but changing the way we educate them. Something to think about.
Chao for now,
Dawnie
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