Uh Oh, Green

Uh Oh...I'm in the middle of trying to do the NaBloPoMo of posting everyday for a month.  This months challenge word is "GREEN".  I have not adhered to the exact word of green, at all in fact and they give you that option.  I am doing the everyday thing though.  It hasn't been a challenge except for yesterday and today.  My mind is in a bind of what to write and I am going to blame it on the heat.  Yeah that's the ticket, blame it on the heat, everything else is blamed on the heat why not this.  Works for me. 

Things that are green:

olives

grass

apples

peas

leaves
money

Now you name some_________________

Should I or Shouldn't I

Should I or shouldn't I have an opinion, a political opinion.  I have tried to not have any kind of political opinion on this blog and really what I'm about to say is not really political but morally right and out of anger and frustration.  This is to all the politicians and oil guys and blow hards.  I have been watching the news as has everyone else about the BP Scandal and all and it is just making me sick.  What I see is a tragedy that has happened in the ocean, not necessarily the US ocean but "OUR" ocean, the world.  It has affected us and the gulf coast so terribly that my heart is just broken.  The people, their livlihoods, their future, hopes and dreams are just crushed.  Their lives as they knew it are done, just done.  Our world will never be the same and I'm not just talking financially I'm talking about the actual world, the earth.  We as people of this earth are stewards of it and we have failed miserably to take care of it.  What is the matter here people.  I am watching the stupid hearings or whatever they are called with the BP exec on the hotseat and the congress people, blah, blah, blah.  He did it, she did it, they did it, I didn't do it, well neither did I, it's not my fault....BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.  Is that all they can do is jabber.  Get out of your seats and DO SOMETHING.  I do not want to wait around while you hash out blame.  Put on some hazemat suits and FIX IT, blame later.  Politicians, all they are good for is talk, talk, talk but no do.  Stand up, move from behind the podium and DO SOMETHING!  This goes to everyone, right down to Tony Hayward and everyone involved, put on the bright yellow suit and WORK!  I cannot take another picture of an oil drenched bird flapping around, dying with the stuff.  My heart hurts by the sadness of it all.  People, stand up and pay attention to our world and how fragile it is.  We are killing this earth with this crap. 

Green

Green!  Green is my favorite color.  Today as I was driving back home after workout with Mr. Wade I was totally enjoying the drive.  The sun was in full early morning glory at a few minutes before 7 am and making the trees and grass this glorious color of green.  That is exactly why green is my favorite color.  It is the color of the outside and I so love it.  Green is new and fresh, new beginnings, spring.  When winter is here and the trees are nothing but sticks poking up to the sky I am so depressed but look now at the fullness and freshness that are the trees now, green.  Green also has other meanings now.  Green can be envy.  Green can be young and inexerienced.  Green is ecology.  Green is recycling.  Green is renewal.  Green is natural.  Makes sense doesn't it.  In 1973, my Senior year of high school I took Ecology class.  My favorite class.  Ecology is not new.  It has been an idea for many years and it seems that I have kind of fallen down on the job with it.  I don't recycle.  Don't condemn me, I tried several years ago and failed miserably.  Now The Hubby is very reluctant to get on board with it even though in our own way we do the little things.  He, not me, showers with turning the water off and on during wash and rinse cycles of his scrubbing.  I do sometimes too.  My kitchen is littered with the half-sheet paper towels that he uses to dry his hands.  He drapes them to dry and reuse until they fall apart.  I think using a tea towel would be better.  I am saving the newspapers for B right now but glass and plastic I am failing on that part.  I think I will have to force The Hubby into it.  It is just a matter of time before the city will force us too anyway and I think that is a good thing.  Green, my favorite color and way of life, hopefully.