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22. April 2009 by admin.
Today is Earth Day - a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. Earth Day was initially founded by Gaylord Nelson in 1970, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. According to Santa Barbara Community Environmental Council, Nelson’s wake up call happened along our coast:
“The story goes that Earth Day was conceived by Senator Gaylord Nelson after a trip he took to Santa Barbara right after that horrific oil spill off our coast in 1969. He was so outraged by what he saw that he went back to Washington and passed a bill designating April 22 as a national day to celebrate the earth.”
So ironic as it may seems, on this Earth Day I wanted to share with you my passion for the ocean and with that a message from The Ocean Conservancy;
“… it’s time to look beneath the surface to see where the health of our planet really begins. It’s time to recognize the source that sustains us day to day with the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe…to discover that all living things are connected to the ocean. It’s time to understand that going green starts with living blue…”
For more information on The Ocean Conservancy visit www.oceanconservancy.org.
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7. March 2009 by admin.
Today was Opening Day for my 6-yr old’s baseball league. There was great fanfare; music, banners, flags and fun for all. A perfect Americana slice of life that I was greatly enjoying until a dark cloud of reality set in…
The opening day event committee invited one player’s dad who happens to be a professional motivational speaker to give a pep talk to the kids. Mr. Motivational Speaker came running up as he was introduced among cheers and applauses. He energized the crowd by getting the kids to flex their muscles and then he proceeded to declare: “Some say ‘Perfect practice makes perfect’ but let’s face it, perfection is an awful high standard - so let us say practice makes permanence…”
I was floored—dumb-founded!!
What kind of generation are we raising when we say “perfection is too high of a standard???” Are we OK with having our children aspire to mediocrity as permanence? It makes me angry and sad.
Is anyone with me on this one?
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