April 22, 2019 at 3:52 p.m.
Spring brings rejuvenation
As I See It
By Diana Dolecki-
My brother, Michael, is back to normal after a health scare last week. He is now armed with medication designed to control his high blood pressure. It is such a relief that such medicine exists and that we have access to it. I always heard that high blood pressure is a problem but had no idea it could manifest itself the way it did.
Enter Easter. It’s the first real holiday after Christmas. Chocolate bunnies, Peeps, and colored eggs mark the day. After a cold, dreary winter the earth is slowly awakening. I have always thought that we should celebrate the beginning of the year in spring instead of January. So far, I have been out voted. I have seen several rabbits in the yard lately. I wonder if any of them took a temporary job as the Easter bunny. Even if they did, Easter is over for the year and they can go back to their bunny lives.
Easter is about resurrection and new life. The hidden message behind the gruesome crucifixion is that we belong here and that our God loves us so much that he sent his son to die for our sins. It also demonstrates that whatever evil is in this world has been here for a really long time, perhaps from the very beginning.
Today is Earth Day. I find it interesting that it should follow Easter so closely this year. Earth Day began on April 22, 1970 as a protest about the way we have taken care of our planet. Smog was deadly and lingered over larger cities. In some places it still does. Pollution was and still is harmful to our health and the health of other living things. Pesticides and herbicides caused the death of more than pests and weeds. They also have had and still do have a negative impact on our own lives while still being necessary to produce high quality products.
The Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, also came into being that year. Those regulations helped slow some of the ways we were, and still are, trying our best to make a giant garbage dump of our environment.
Holidays and laws will not save us from ourselves. We are constantly developing new ways to produce the energy we so greedily use. Often, the alternatives come with their own set of problems. Technology is advancing at the speed of light. Who would have thought back in the 70’s that electric cars would be a reality? Who would have thought that instead of being attached to the wall, that we would carry our telephones with us or that we could take pictures with them? Why would anybody use a phone to take a picture?
Back in the ’70s the idea that we could carry libraries in the palm of our hands was unheard of. Computers took up entire rooms and were operated by men in suits and ties. Our cell phones do so much more than those early computers did. Now phones are smaller than a slice of bread and even toddlers know how to use them.
The easiest and perhaps most efficient way to help the earth is to clean up after ourselves. The plastics we love need to be recycled into products that we use. It is not only industry that pollutes, every time we toss a piece of trash outside it is one more thing for someone else to pick up.
Today is Earth Day. Yesterday was Easter. Tomorrow? All I know is that the flowers are blooming, the weather is warm and my brother is fine.
Enter Easter. It’s the first real holiday after Christmas. Chocolate bunnies, Peeps, and colored eggs mark the day. After a cold, dreary winter the earth is slowly awakening. I have always thought that we should celebrate the beginning of the year in spring instead of January. So far, I have been out voted. I have seen several rabbits in the yard lately. I wonder if any of them took a temporary job as the Easter bunny. Even if they did, Easter is over for the year and they can go back to their bunny lives.
Easter is about resurrection and new life. The hidden message behind the gruesome crucifixion is that we belong here and that our God loves us so much that he sent his son to die for our sins. It also demonstrates that whatever evil is in this world has been here for a really long time, perhaps from the very beginning.
Today is Earth Day. I find it interesting that it should follow Easter so closely this year. Earth Day began on April 22, 1970 as a protest about the way we have taken care of our planet. Smog was deadly and lingered over larger cities. In some places it still does. Pollution was and still is harmful to our health and the health of other living things. Pesticides and herbicides caused the death of more than pests and weeds. They also have had and still do have a negative impact on our own lives while still being necessary to produce high quality products.
The Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, also came into being that year. Those regulations helped slow some of the ways we were, and still are, trying our best to make a giant garbage dump of our environment.
Holidays and laws will not save us from ourselves. We are constantly developing new ways to produce the energy we so greedily use. Often, the alternatives come with their own set of problems. Technology is advancing at the speed of light. Who would have thought back in the 70’s that electric cars would be a reality? Who would have thought that instead of being attached to the wall, that we would carry our telephones with us or that we could take pictures with them? Why would anybody use a phone to take a picture?
Back in the ’70s the idea that we could carry libraries in the palm of our hands was unheard of. Computers took up entire rooms and were operated by men in suits and ties. Our cell phones do so much more than those early computers did. Now phones are smaller than a slice of bread and even toddlers know how to use them.
The easiest and perhaps most efficient way to help the earth is to clean up after ourselves. The plastics we love need to be recycled into products that we use. It is not only industry that pollutes, every time we toss a piece of trash outside it is one more thing for someone else to pick up.
Today is Earth Day. Yesterday was Easter. Tomorrow? All I know is that the flowers are blooming, the weather is warm and my brother is fine.
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