Happy Earth Day!
Earth Day is a pretty big deal around this house. My girls number one goal on Earth Day is to fill as many bags of garbage as possible. They collect litter quite often throughout the year, but Earth Day seems to fill them with an intense motivation. They begin on our street and make their way to a local park, collecting garbage as they go.
Though it may seem like a small effort in the grand scheme of things, these little efforts they make and the time spent considering why the garbage is even there in the first place will hopefully stick with them and help them be to be better adults. Like looking back on witch trials, segregated schools and the draft, the idea of trash being strewn across our streets, towns, lakes and countries will hopefully seem so antiquated and strange as to barely be believed at all by the time my little girls have children of their own.
It makes me so happy that they still want to and that they genuinely enjoy doing these kind of things. As they grow, I hope it will evolve into a deep understanding of how fragile Mother Earth is, and help them to take pride in their planet. It gives me hope for their future.
What do you and your family do for Earth Day?
Peace and Love,