earth day...

ok, so about 25 years ago i remember gathering with my entire school on the front lawn of the campus for a ceremony to witness the planting of a tree in honor of the first earth day........and the lessons that week in class revolved around reducing/reusing/recycling to save the planet....at the time i do not recall catching the fervor of anything about the reuse part.....because i was from a reuse family...heck...my chore when i visted my grandmother in cleveland was often to wash out the baggies and hang them on the line to dry with clothespins.......these days were are a total r/r/r clan........and this is a good thing......hopefully my offspring will continue this tradition when they move on.......on the other hand.....having visited 2 of my spouse's siblings in the past 3 weeks....i was startled to discover that neither recycled anything at all...not even glass or aluminum......ouch....what do they think happens to this stuff.......that it just goes away and there will always be more........after 25 years of focus on saving the world there still seems so much more to be done....even with our blood kin.........gosh.....it is so hard to be an aging hippie......what i really wish for is a new generation of tree-hugging savetheplanet types.......yeah....that's what i wish for........