Earth Day 2010

If you were to Google "Earth Day" you would discover 74,300,000 links. On YouTube there are 20,200,000. You could spend all of Earth Day reading or watching videos but you could never view all of these items. I don't recommend it.
I have a better idea. Go outside! Walk in the splendor of Spring, even if you have to wear your rubber boots and a poncho. Indeed, jump in a puddle and splash yourslef and anyone around you. Turn your face skyward and feel the rain trickle down your cheeks. Stick out your tongue and drink the sky's cordials.
From my front porch this morning a grand chorus had gathered in the prairie to sing the wonder of creation. The conductor was Maestro Great Horned Owl who sat atop a telephone pole. His direction is most subtle. The leading vocalist was the Mocking Bird whose repertoire was expansive. The depth of her range and complicated syntax was complemented by satirical and comical stanzas. The Ring-necked Pheasant offered a few brief solos, as did the Red-bellied Woodpecker. Other choral members included the Blue Jay, Meadowlark, Mourning Dove, Eastern Kingbird, a variety of Sparrows and Finches, Red-winged Blackbirds, Cardinals, Robins, Plovers, and Starlings. I think someone should have auditioned the Starlings. As usual they were off key and out of tune.
Earth Day must surely be more than articles, speeches, resolutions, videos, and the usual litany of all the things we should do to save the earth. We cannot save the earth unless we are prfoundly in tune with her harmonies. Remember this stanza from St. Francis of Assisi's "All Creatures of Our God and King:"
Dear Mother Earth, who day by day
unfoldest blessings on our way,
O praise him, Alleluia!
The flowers and fruits that in thee grow,
let them his glory also show:
O praise him, O praise him. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.