25: earth hour

So I try to “go green” as often as I can.

The Prius is my saving grace – I figure my football shaped electric car earns me the right to occasionally flick a cigarette, or throw a pop can in the regular trash. BUT NO! I don’t want to have the just-this-once attitude anymore. It’s high time I care for the world around me - smell the organic coffee and face the new age music.

FIRST, a short trip down memory lane – I think I was in kindergarten -

Dad, Cassie and I on the boat,
Jupiter’s turquoise water shining beneath us,
Just ate a popsicle bought at Barnacle Bobs (for those of you who don’t know, it’s a floating restaurant, only to be rivaled by Water Weenies)
I leaned over the greenish 70’s paneling,
About to throw my popsicle into the water -
“STOP!”
My Dad grabs my hand and glares at me–
“what?” I asked.
“NEVER litter.”
“It’s wood though, trees are wood, too!”
“Robin, think about it this way: what if every person in the entire world threw their sticks into the water?? What would happen then?”
I imagined tidal waves of popsicle sticks; splintering the fish, choking the drains, skewering the swimmers and snagging the water-skiers… you get the idea.

My dad looked at me. “That’s what I thought.”

I don’t want to live in a world of trash – and I don’t want my friends and family living there, either.

My first order of green is posting about “earth hour”.

Check out the link here:

http://www.earthhour.org/

worldwide people are shutting off their lights for one hour on March 29th - 8pm.

I think Sampson and I can handle this. What about you?

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http://fiveblondes.com/

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