July 21, 2007

• Downers and Downtime_LE

   

  I have been experiencing a downer for a few days, various reasons.  My daughter and her family drove from Virginia taking a short vacation motivated by a class reunion in Iowa.  They visited for a day, their plans to spend 3 more days with us on the way back.  Their vacation has been hit with a tragedy, the death in Iraq of a close and good friend who worked with Mitch on base in Spain for their 3 year tour of duty there.  Everyone is devastated and now a funeral is included in their trip.  The friend was from somewhere close in Iowa I think.  Halie reports she has cried for 4 days as he and wife were good friends and there are two small children.  You can read on her page, Halie.  Not to minimize other deaths happening in Iraq as they are all terrible but this is very much closer to home.  I think Iraq equates to AIDS, most of us will know someone, eventually, who has died from one or the other. 

  I take things very hard.  When Halie hurts I go to pieces and she really doesn’t know just how bad.  I guess she will get a clue if she reads this.  Military personnel experience a lot of hurt and pain.  It’s a part of their life.  During conflicts there is much more.  I have heard of others they knew and other personal experience I won’t relate as it is hers to tell.  But, I sit here and cry for all of them.  To top it off, I have put my foot into my mouth once again.  I’m not happy unless I upset someone every so often.  Apologies always to anyone I upset as I really don’t mean to be offensive and you will get a personal apology.

  As I am crying while sitting here I thought I would copy in a very old page I did years ago.  One of my very first from a site I will eventually delete. 

  “Nature Cries Tears”  Written by © RSBlain, December, 1999 … Revised:  September 13, 2003 … Hidden in branches, obscured by the leaves, covered by lichens and mosses in trees the face of Nature peeks from and sees the irresponsible things we do. Tears of rain come cascading down the acid drops wetting her sorrowful frown she cries for loss of her natural gown and do we care?  We say we care. Poisons filtering thru her waters, garbage strewn over once virgin land, her offspring sighing, crying, dying, Where are our values?  Is the rape really worth the desecration, destruction of our Mother Planet, this once perfect Earth. ______________________   There are many choices we can make concerning ecology.  All of them demand better stewardship over our air, our water, and our numerous other natural resources.  For a lasting existence we must go forward to a more dedicated concern to improve usage of all of it.  Nature needs time to recover her losses.  Chemicals in our air and waters need to dissipate and toxins in streams and lakes need to be cleansed from them.  Animals, plants, and fish need time to regroup so they can come back to useful and profitable numbers.  Time and a deep concern by the citizens of the world are necessary.  Continued pollution and waste of resources can no longer be tolerated.  We either “do” or “we don’t”  take steps to reign in wasteful and polluting usages.  In the end we will reap exactly what we have sown, the continued slow death of the Earth or an Earth that will come back to sustain us.  Pollution comes in many forms all of them man made.  We are responsible for the waste, the byproducts of all things manufactured and these pollutants have saturated the air we breathe and the water we drink.  Unless we find how to better recycle and how to better dispose of waste we have signed our own death warrant.  God help us all.  “What Reason” Written by:  © RSBlain December 1999 What reason is there to go on living if all the beauty of the Earth is gone?  What reason is there if breezes are tainted and the flowers and trees no longer grow?  What reason could possibly entice if birds no longer fly overhead and the wildlife exist only in a book? What Reason? What songs will we sing?  What dance will we dance, when it is all a part of the past?   For the best Ecologically minded list I have found on the internet, Visit here Friends of the Earth: Links For petitions:  worth their weight in gold, Visit here The Petition Site – Authentic Petitions. Real Change. Find Your Recycling Center Earth 911: recycling centers Carol Tanzi Goddess of Garbage, Carol A. Tanzi

  Good Thoughts always,

  Becca

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