Earth Day Every Day

Earth Day started on April 22, 1970. It now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally through earthday.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. You can read more about the origins of Earth Day here, thanks to  Wikipedia. 

Nature, environment, climate and weather are all part of Earth Day activities.  Helping animals, clearing rivers, planting trees, we learn to  live in harmony with the Earth we are a part of.  It is not just for people, but for all living things.

And here, in the midwest, near the Great Lakes, the Earth is in bloom--tulips and magnolias, violets and dandelions, the new green leaves on the trees. It is beauty.  It is hope and renewal again.  

And who among us has no worries, especially in these times of uncertainty, plagues and wars?

The natural world offers a refuge and a connection to things beyond the affairs of men.  All this, and cherry trees blooming...

This is why Earth Day is not just for one day. It is every day.