HAPPY EARTH DAY EVERYONE !!!

[BeatleBoot]

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John Lee's was rockin'
The Imitators drove it home
Sun was dancin' up a heatwave
For a while she was all alone

When up walked a tall stranger
He shadowed her move-to-move
In perfect unison
A supernatural groove

He took her by the hand
And the room began to spin
He said, "I'm Earth, Earth Brown.
You know the shape I'm in."

I'm leaving tonight for Alaska
And I want you to call me in the Spring
And be a Goddess in the Planet War
Trying to save the living things.

"I'm ready to go right now",
Sun Green told Earth Brown
Let's go back to my place
Pick up my cat and leave this town behind...

(from Neil Young's Greendale)

[earthmama]

1. HAPPY EARTH DAY !!!!

Hug the earth today. It works hard for us and needs to be taken care of.

Heading out soon to pick up some trash and plants some trees .

PEACE to ALL!!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

2. I love to tell this earth day story from 14 years ago

Went hiking with my two boys who at the time were 5 and 9 years old.
During the hike I told them we were celebrating earth day, and
we talked about being kind to mother earth.

Stopping for a picnic lunch, my 5 year old was starving and frantically
yanked his sandwich from the wrapper. But in his quest to cure his hunger
pangs, he threw the wrapper on the ground.

I immediately called him on it. "Hey, pick that up.
That's called littering- When you do that
you make the world an ugly place."

Soon after lunch he tells me he needs to pee.
Pointing to a tree I tell him to go behind there.
He quickly runs to the tree, pulls his britches down,
and I watched while a curious glow lit up his face-
He yells out to me, "Hey mom, am I making the world an ugly place?"

[dinspirer]

3. Thanks

:hi: We have a group neighborhood project today (tire recycling).I want coffee first though:hangover:

[newyawker99]

5. Hi dinspirer!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dinspirer]

6. Thank YOU!!!!!!!

Nice to be home. I think I'll stay for awhile:hi:

[ugarte]

4. 36 years ago today I was at Central Park, NY

We just kind of wandered into the whole thing for the good vibe, really had no idea how big Earth Day would become.

Amazing. 36 years. I wonder if any other DUers were there.

[Land Shark]

7. Happy Earth Day to you as well.

tonight my two kids and I will "embrace the earth" in sleeping bags sprawled over the tent floor. The frogs are singing late and long around here.