I remember the first Earth Day, April 1970. We gathered in Fairmont Park in Philadelphia, bands played music from a concert stage. Hundreds sat on the rolling green lawns, shedding their innocence of youth and rising up for the first time for a cause that would grow into worldwide recognition. But for us, at that time, we were all but ignored because it was the “in” thing to do, counter culture, un-American.
Or so they said.
Today, the message reverberates in every language, in every nation. It has become the issue of note but still the message has far to be carried. People nod in agreement from the front seat of their SUV; their is much talk but little action.
The evidence mounts and the fear grows but until the pain is felt, those of us who know worry more than those that merely speak because it is the “in” thing to do - today.
Living the Green Way is an ingenuous blog containing unrestrained opinion on the state of our environment and the events that affect it. Here you will find news of this concern and stories worthy of notation. Living the Green Way is one voice in the din of pollution where reason resides and what needs to be said finds a venue.
Thomas is a passionate writer. I consider myself a Creative, an artist (and a bit of a rebel, breaking the rules such as switching tenses in the middle of a paragraph:). Imagination is my most cherished attribute and my sacred refuge. It whispers in the still quiet and reveals the unsaid, tells of the irrevocably possible. It is the one lens through which we look that is more than the lens of ego, changing the surveyed world from one tinted with arrogance to one glowing with possibility.
He breathed life into my lungs and spoke one word: Write.
