Today is Earth Day. This year Earth Day includes America's Global Climate Summit, with 40 world leaders assembling online to discuss the urgency and economics of climate change, as well as Earth Day's 51st annual program and events, initiated by earthday.org. (Streaming programs this year). The thematic focus of this year's program is Restore Our Earth. It's a fitting theme as the Pandemic continues it's global spread, with new crises erupting in some countries, while others enter the path of recovery, and we all race to vaccinate the worlds' population. In this 50 year tradition, Earth Day has been a time to appreciate humanity's connection to the Earth as well as promoting awareness of our environmental changes and threats.
The idea of "Restore Our Earth" encourages the application of natural processes in restoring ecosystems, along with emerging green technology and innovating thinking. With over a billion people in 192 countries participating, this is a day of creative, affirmative energy and a call to personal as well as collective action. Take a little time today to reflect that you too have some part to play in this Restoration. Even small actions bring you into a new kind of communion with the earth and with those who work with global projects on a much larger scale. Spiritually though, a greater discovery awaits--as we are in the world, so too, the world lies within us. We are more than of the earth; the earth resides in us. Restoring our Earth requires action in the physical world, but the deeper spiritual mystery is restoring Earth's home in our hearts. (Susan Nettleton)
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
-John Muir (Scottish-American environmentalist, 1838-1914)