Post #54 – Women’s Memoirs, News – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
What Does Earth Day Have to Do with Memoir?
Let’s begin with Earth Day.
Every day should be Earth Day. We need earth’s clear air to breath, fertile soil to grow food, clean waters to drink, ample forests to build shelter, and the list goes on. We need the earth in such a basic-everyday-ordinary way that we often forget just how dependent on it we are — just how intertwined our lives are with its elements.
Today is Earth Day 2011. This is the official day to celebrate the earth. Do you have your personal way to commemorate this day? Maybe you have decided to reuse a glass jar rather than recycle it, bike or walk to the grocery store rather than take your car, eat an organic meal, plant a tree — or even a tomato plant, recycle a AA battery that you were about to toss in the garbage can, use [click to continue…]
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