The day started about 5 am with one too many surprises for my daughter. Today is the first day of the play she's been rehearsing all these months, Once Upon A Mattress. They were there until midnight on Tuesday. She was so tired she couldn't even wake up yesterday. She stayed home slept over half the day away then got everything ready to go for her 7 am call. Today the performances are for elementary school students and tomorrow is opening night for the public. I hope things go good and they don't have to rehearse more after the play.
So, other than sending good vibes to my daughter, what exactly am I supposed to do on Earth Day? I looked it up - George Carlin had an interesting spin on it, called The Planet is Fine. You would have go Google it because most of it I can't put here. You wanna know if the planet’s all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilauea, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.
Well, I guess maybe I could put a sorta green photo. I don't know...
Just give me the warm power of the Sun
Give me the steady flow of the waterfall
Give me the spirit of living things
As they return to clay
Give me the restless power of the wind
Give me the comforting glow of the wood fire
But won't you take all your atomic poison power away
Every body needs some power I'm told
To shield them from the darkness and the cold
Some may seek a way to take control
When it's bought and sold
I know that lives are at stake
Yours and mine, and our descendants in time
There's so much to gain, so much to lose
Everyone of us has to choose
Written by: John and Johanna Hall
From the MUSE No Nukes Concerts in 1979
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