Earth Day

Happy ED, everyone!  (no, not erectile dysfunction)

The Earth is the third rock from the sun, and the only known planet (to us) in the universe known to harbor life.

Life is sacred and precious, and depends on a clean, healthy planet.

Do aliens want our planet?  Do they want us dead?   I don’t think so, but it’s a weird thought that crossed my mind.

Planet- let’s plan it!   No pollution, and lots of Nature, and thriving ecosystems, and no runaway temperature nightmares, and lots of LIFE!   Live!   Get out into the woods and deserts and beaches and observe the plants and animals, draw them, protect them, respect them, and love the globe that sustains all of us, which is the only Heaven for humans that EXISTS!   I mean, there’s the space station, which hopefully isn’t a nightmare, but seriously, let’s keep the earth habitable and hopefully fun for everyone, because we humans are animals too, that have evolved and adapted to conditions on EARTH, and nowhere else.    Obviously.   This madness about the earth being a way station to some “heaven” out there in space, after we die, is utterly daft insanity, a delusion of the mentally ill.    I mean, if you ask me, lol.   

Anyway, 

Let’s love animals, tend our gardens, do more than just go to zoos, and feel a part of Nature, integrated into it, not some dominant race of god-beings who lord over the animals, who are free to destroy our planet, in an absurd and meaningless universe of vast, cold emptiness.   We should be stewards of Nature and live up to our responsibility as the species at the top of food chain and overwhelming masters of our environment(s) to make sure all the other animals don’t needlessly suffer, and that we feel good about ourselves doing good, not as disrespectful and callous sinners who fail to show compassion to all the other animals who feel pain like ourselves.   Maybe you want to eat less meat.   Maybe you want to put out a bird feeder.   Maybe you want to take a train instead of flying.   Maybe you want to go camping with your kids.   Or go to Africa and on a safari.   Or go birdwatching, or whale watching, or pet a dolphin, or what have you.   Raise pets, like dogs or lizards or even an antfarm.  Watch Nature documentaries, ask questions, support organizations, ride a bicycle, save electricity, don’t pollute, recycle, and soothe your soul in places that don’t have so much goddamned cement.  

Teshara is an anagram of as earth, as heart, as hater, and he’s a rat.    It’s a fun name.   Earth means dirt, and we’ll all become dirt / dust, and we like to be dirty, and we all need Nature, in our cores.   Not just because we’re part of an interdependent web of relationships with plants and animals for food and air, but because animals are fun, gardens are beautiful, fishing is healthy, getting away is basically mandatory, and scenic landscapes are essential to our well-being.   So don’t treat earth day like some hippy politically-correct day for tree-huggers, treat it like your life and happiness, and the survival of unknown numbers of generations, depends on it.

That’s what I have to say.

Happy Earth Day and Every Day, and go catch a wave, go climb a rock, go fly a kite, and love your mother!   All religions should incorporate a little Native American spirituality, if you ask me.     They say Nature is red in tooth and claw, but humans are at risk of killing the whole deal.   Corporations and governments need to all join the party.