The company I work for helped Lady Gaga get the ONE WORLD TOGETHER AT HOME CONCERT together. It's a global concert and digital special to support front line healthcare workers and the WHO.
DATE: APRIL 18, 2020 at 8pmET USA.
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/
This is from James Broughton- a Beat poet and Radical Faerie:
An Easter Litany for Trees
Harken, fresh saplings on Easter morn!
To ensure your perennial resurrection
affirm your faith in the miracle of green
by repeating yearly this credo of renewal:
I believe unconditionally in
the one impossible truth
the two doors of perspicacity
the three windows of the unthinkable
the four corners of the boundless
the five pillars of insecurity
the six towers of pointlessness
the seven roads to the vanishing point
the eight capitals of bewilderment
the nine arenas of intrepidity
&
the ten palaces of impossible wisdom
wherein are kept
the original designs for the world’s trees
the original score for all birdsong
and the master blueprint for the first
explosion of springtime
Be true to this faith all your budding days
and ye shall branch blossom and be leafy
to the joy of all creatures
as many times as there are Easters.
— James Broughton
HAPPY EARTH DAY! AND HAPPY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY! ? ??
To celebrate Earth day and tackle the important topic of Climate Change, Michael Moore just released a documentary/movie entitled: "Planet of the Humans" that was supposed to be in theaters, but he is releasing it for free on Ytube:
ps: today is 04 22 2020 = 4 4 4 !
Oh man... !!!** (Your post from March 22: '' Outbreak " *)
Just re-reading this beauty .... ?
Thank you!!! ?
To honor our beloved Earth Day, and the New Moon that is such a harbinger of new beginnings, and all of our Wishes going forward my sweet friends .....
" There's magic in the air ...
You may hear
The soft tinkling of tiny bells
On a sudden breeze
That carries a rush of fireflies
Into the velvet midnight
To disappear in a molten thread
Of silver seeds
Whose unborn promise
Is a meadow of starflowers "
( This came to me one April in the not-too-distant past, and I've posted it before, though today it seems to resonate even more ?)
Hi I'm new to the forum from the Land Down Under, but I have been following your site for over a year. I had not realised that it was Earth Day yesterday, but as I was getting ready for bed last night, a song popped into my head that I hadn't thought of for many years
Bless the Beasts and Children by the Carpenters was one of my favourite songs growing up and I think it's appropriate for Earth Day
For in this world they have no voice,
They have no choice.
Bless the beasts and the children,
For the world can never be,
The world they see.
When the darkness surrounds them;
Give them love, let it shine all around them.
Bless the beasts and the children;
Give them shelter from a storm;
Keep them safe;
Keep them warm.
When the darkness surrounds them;
Give them love, let it shine all around them.
Bless the beasts and the children;
Give them shelter from a storm;
Keep them safe;
Keep them warm.
Give them shelter from a storm;
Keep them safe;
Keep them warm.
I held Earth Day in my heart all day yesterday. It's a wonderful thing to have been alive for the first one and even more so for her 50th. But of course that's only in this man-made construct of time, space, and our "sensing" of this reality and not real in the greater scheme of things of all there ever was, is now, or ever will be.
I was 20 years old for the very first earth day and a thousand miles away from home and family in college. Much was happening all around me. It was incredibly new and exciting. Every single day, every single moment was alive and breathing with so many, many new things, new experiences, new emotions and most of all new acceptances and learnings.
To be this very quiet, very deep and happy and always smiling young person--still a girl truly-- and not yet feeling the beingness of coming into womanhood. To be alive and welcoming and so very excited by even the newness of tiny things was surreal yet always just my "new normal" for then.
Because the next day brought newer experiences, newer new normals. Normal didn't mean anything at all even if i knew what normal was supposed to mean or me. It was easy to accept that i was not anyone else's "normal". I was me and i loved the blessing of this huge huge gift of going off into this very, very different new world.
Growing up in an isolated and land locked part of Alaskan where just flying south to the lower 48 was like entering a different world and flying in was considered the most dangerous approach and landing in the U.S. with only the pilot's visual abilities providing access to conditions below we just did all things bravely.
Qne didn't question or really even fear the experience just the roar of things coming to life and taking off and into new horizons We would just do, just cope, just accept each and every new experience as it was.
I should have been afraid but it didn't enter my awareness. I was raised with challenges and obstacles and the unknown--even death simply by riding "out the road" with my dad in his rattle trap old company truck was that day, the best, most exciting thing in the world. Especially if he had the money to buy us each a frozen treat out of the freezer chest at the grocery store!
We had 25 miles of road to to get to the end of what i should have seen as the end of my world. But i didn't. We reached the end of that old gravel road and it was exciting and accepted and enjoyed that as 25 miles was considered a huge amount of driving. Then we turned around and came back. There was only one way to do that with no alternate roads of any kind yet available. Yet the ride back gave me a up close and personal view of the other side of the road so even that became new and exciting!
I realize now how amazing that life was for me. My whole world was based on the earth, my earth as i knew her. It was living and thriving and surviving but without fear in nature. We were taught where the bears came out, where we had to be alert and careful and what to do if one charged us or attacked us.
I was never afraid to go there with my family as we did every 2 weeks. It was where we picked wild blueberries and the only place we had to dispose of the family garbage.
Doing brave things in nature and relishing and being excited and filling myself up with her breathing, living, ever changing energies just was. Feeling the existence if other earth beings as alive and part of me and all there was..that just was. I was curious about ancient burial grounds of the old native ones and felt them around me. Now i can see and feel the emotion known as fear that i should have felt, should have not perhaps been drawn to or not chosen to open to. Nothing bad happened when I did . It was just very very curious and different and i wondered if it was "real" or part of my amazing inner life of my own creative imaginings!
The earth was a part of all of us. The winds and the sky and ocean seas and rivers and lakes and waterfalls and the mountains rising on both sides of my in between all things and absolutely all and nothing else but all life.
To celebrate "earth day" at age 20....50 years ago!...wasn't a blip on the radar of my life in my memories I probably just wondered why people in the "south" needed to to create a specific day to celebrate what always just was.
Happy Birthday Great Mother. Happy Birthday yesterday, today and all of your tomorrows!
Yes! It resonates on so many different levels .....
Coyote, this is something you may want to check out, given your Native American affinity .... the Western mind doesn't understand it too well I've found, tho nonetheless it's kind of fascinating ?
*The Heyoka Empath* of the Lakota Sioux tribe heritage ...
Hope you are having an uplifting day and keeping in good spirits dear one .... ?
Welcome to our forum! Delighted to meet you-- a fellow traveler bringing to our earth day fireside one of their truly poignant earth and heart merging as one ballads.
Simple words and melody creating at its heart both a prayer and a plea for remembrance of the unity of all things beginning with the most sentient--the gift of consciousness of both the beasts of all kinds both wild and domesticated and the children of all kinds--both very young and very very old.
I am 70 years old but always and forever a child still loving, laughing, learning and growing in the vast wilderness of this never ending story of our earth and all her many children.
Thank you and many blessings for this lovely remembrance and connection to the heart and music of the decades of love we all brought forth for oh those many, many years ago!