Earth Day 2010--April 22, 2010

April 22, 2010 is Earth Day 2010.  Disney has timed its release of the Oceans movie in theaters for this date and the Avatar movie is released in DVD and Blue Ray as of today.

The earth is experiencing lots of changes at its depths, on its surface, and in its atmosphere.  We hear of earthquakes and volcanoes, global climate change, holes in the ozone layer, and much more.

Yesterday someone I know mentioned a belief from a previous generation that traveling outside of the earth's atmosphere--to the moon--would cause problems on the planet.

While I don't see the cause and effect relationship of our moon walk to current earth changes, it is a good time for many of the people on this planet to hold a focus for healing the planet.  I don't know what the healing would look like--I leave that to Spirit.  I do believe that we can hold a focus (or put out a prayer) for healing of our planet and everything connected with it as a contribution for Earth Day and beyond.

The images of our "blue marble" planet sent from space are beautiful.  With all that beauty it is amazing to be aware of the conflict and crime and pollution that are still taking place here.  Earth Day is traditionally (since 1970) a time to focus on reducing, reusing, and recycling materials to preserve our planet.  We may also want to be doing that within our own thought systems.

Old Words and Meanings--New Words?

Another person at the Delnor Wellness Center today shared with me a list of words well known by people over fifty that have fallen out of use as slang today.  A news announcement in the past two months described some new words creeping into our vocabulary.  unfriend was a new one for this year, meaning to take someone off of your "friend" list at a social networking site.

The words in the attached photo represent a start of words that are disappearing from slang.  What others can you remember?   (Click on the picture to see all the columns.)