The Earth is Our Mother

Happy Earth Day tomorrow! The big 4-0! (Not the planet, of course, the "holiday.) The kids have talked about it, both the holiday and environmental action in general, in preschool and church school, in positive and affirming ways (not, thankfully, the destruction we as a species have wrought on the planet). And so we're having our own little party. Sis wants to walk around picking up any trash in our yard and neighborhood. And we're thinking of starting the fruit and vegetable seeds Gommie sent us in small containers on the porch (we can't plant here in CT until Mother's Day, as the rule goes). Otherwise, I hope to spend as much of the day outside as the forecasted rainy weather allows us, making the Green Hour into a Green Day: fairy houses, seeds, nature walk, fairy boats, bubbles, trash pick-up, picnic, playset, scooters, tricycles. The sky's the limit. Have a great green day!