#294...now, onto bigger and more important things than stupid aol lists..

like the earth, for instance.

     "One stormy autumn night when my nephew Roger was about twenty months old, I wrapped him in a blanket and carried him down to the beach in the rainy darkness.  Out there, just at the edge of where-we-couldn't-see, big waves were thundering in, dimly seen white shapes that boomed and shouted and threw great handfuls of froth at us.  Together we laughed for pure joy - he a baby meeting for the first time the wild tumult of Oceanus, I with the salt of half a lifetime of sea love in me.  But I think we felt the same spine-tingling response to the vast, roaring ocean and the wild night around us. 
     A night or two later the stom had blown itself out and I took Roger again to the beach, this time to carry him to the water's edge, piercing the darkness with the yellow cone of our flashlight.  Although there was no rain, the night was again noisy with breaking waves and the insistent wind.  It was clearly a time and place where great and elemental things prevailed..."

                                                 ~Rachel Carson
                                              A Sense of Wonder

                                                                                      

~.."It was clearly a time and place where great and elemental things prevailed"...you said it sister...

Happy earth day - lets keep her that way.  Plant a tree.