So I suppose it's nice and fitting to start this week with a renewed dedication to protecting the earth with sustainable solutions and a commitment to protecting our planet and our humanity.
Side-note: When I was in 7th/8th grade and we all had those binder with the presentation sleeve on the front, the cool kids collected each others' StarShots pictures in matching outfits with too much makeup, but I.... well, let's just say that I used my presentation sleeve to promote the Padres' sweep over the Dodgers to make the playoffs in '96, and among other things, made a collage out of National Geographic-type publications to promote Earth Day and my adolescent, idealistic Earth-saving goals. I don't think anyone cared or understood, but my goals in that regard remain unchanged. Also that remains one of my favorite Padres/Dodgers memories.
Anyways, no time for significant introspection on my part but I couldn't let today go by unnoticed, so here's a few quickies:
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
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| Anyone know where this beautiful graphic came from (besides Pinterest?) |
- A few of my fave Earth-saving Tweeps:
@WiLDCOAST@iloveacleansd@Katerva@nature_org@NOAA@SurfriderSD@cleanupday - Adopting a manatee was always on my bucket list and my parents made it happen for my birthday last year :) Flicker is my girl in Tampa Bay - http://www.savethemanatee.org/default.html
- I went to day camp here for a couple summers as a kid and it's always been one of my favorites to visit; I highly recommend an afternoon here if possible: Living Coast Discovery Center
- Take action :) http://act.earthday.org/
Happy Earth Day, now I'm crying (seriously, it makes me teary and it's rather pathetic) #LetItGrow
Go take a walk today! I have to say I'm blessed to have experienced some pretty amazing scenery (and company!) in my day and would share a million pictures of the amazing places my parents took us to over the years if I had taken the time to scan them in, which I guess I should really work on:
Go hug a tree and pick up cigarette butts,
