Natural Awakenings S Houston Galveston April 2018
Annual Healthy Living Directory & Earth Day Issue
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letter from publisher<br />
Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind<br />
longs to play with your hair. - Khalil Gibran<br />
Spring is my favorite time of the year. The Earth warms<br />
and the grass grows with anticipation of floral diversity,<br />
with beautiful colors and shapes. We are especially<br />
lucky in Texas because of the Bluebonnets & Indian Paintbrushes<br />
which surround us. My wish is that everyone could<br />
enjoy this beauty around the world everywhere. Unfortunately,<br />
our consumerism and “need for speed” drives us<br />
to create an incredible amount of trash every day. In fact,<br />
researchers have named a huge island of floating trash in the Pacific, “Great<br />
Pacific Garbage Patch”. Even media outlets like Fox News have acknowledged<br />
it and reported on scientists concerns about it growing faster than anticipated,<br />
in this online article below just released March 22 nd .<br />
(http://www.foxnews.com/science/<strong>2018</strong>/03/22/great-pacific-garbage-patch-floating-island-trash-in-ocean-is-now-twice-size-texas.html)<br />
Appreciation and care for<br />
our Earth is aligned with<br />
appreciation and care for our<br />
bodies, and our neighbors.<br />
This is why Christ asked that<br />
we treat our neighbors as we<br />
would treat ourselves. Love<br />
and care for each other, our<br />
bodies and our Earth is universal<br />
– a basic need, and a<br />
desire of every human on the<br />
planet regardless of which part of the Earth they live. Spiritually, I believe, those<br />
who are selfish and not sensitive to the needs of others have forgotten their innate<br />
God-like nature. They are a path of becoming aware, and “Awakening”.<br />
As each one of us learns, becomes aware and IMPLEMENTS our learnings,<br />
we create a better world for everyone. And recycling is just one way to contribute!<br />
Ask your local restaurants to carry paper cups instead of plastic or Styrofoam.<br />
Styrofoam almost never degrades and is by far one of the worst products<br />
we product. As business owners, use recycled or biodegradable products. Most<br />
people don’t want to do this because it will cost ten cents more a cup in your fast<br />
food line, but we the people have a voice, and we can clearly see our trash piling<br />
up everywhere, globally. Sometimes a little investment in doing the right thing<br />
can yield longer term rewards. And it’s time to stop chasing the dollar for short<br />
term rewards. Warren Buffett didn’t build his billions on short term gains every<br />
quarter, he invested with a long-term view and it has served him well. Many Native<br />
American tribes would consult with elders before going into war with neighboring<br />
tribes. The elders would consider the effects on the next seven generations<br />
before making a decision. We have the blessing of science and math to now see<br />
more of our world than our ancestors, and with mathematics and statistics, we<br />
can predict the direction we are going.<br />
Let’s start making better choices for ourselves and our families and our planet, for<br />
the long term, to make our world a bit brighter!
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