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Earthday
The World Is Changing – Be A Part Of It!!!!
I had a rather busy day, last Sunday. After breakfast, I busied myself in my garden for an hour or so before I hopped on a city bus to go downtown. I had to go to a printing shop to prepare some more of my students’ art for The Peacebus!!!
After I left that shop I decided to relax on a bench for a moment, to enjoy the sunshine and music. Music??? Hmmmm… where was that coming from. I tried to look across the street to see but there was so much traffic bustling by that I couldn’t see a thing.
Wait! I did see something in between a small break in the cars and buses! I went to investigate further.
Of course! How could I have forgotten!! It was ‘Car-Free Sunday’ in downtown London, Ontario and in over 80 other cities around the world!!!
It seems funny that some people still think that ‘the end of the world’ is upon us. They think that humans have destroyed the planet so viciously that there is no hope for the future. I firmly believe that these thoughts will bring about that nasty reality. I also know that so many MORE people think that this period of the Earth’s history is ‘the beginning of something magical’. I firmly believe that these thoughts will bring about our glorious reality!
Every time I turn around another global environmental campaign is touching the lives of millions of people. Four years ago saw the beginning of Earth Hour. Last year I participated in the world’s first March For Peace. Last year I participated in an event entitled ‘350′, where concerned people raised their voices to support the need for a world full of clean air. Earthday – or should I say Earthweek – is just around the corner and now the newest global peace attack has just past… Car-Free Sunday!!!
As you can see this downtown street had been closed to traffic so that Londoners could celebrate healthy living and happy learning. Many thousands of people attended and most of those people were under the age of seven!!!!
Let’s see what was going on…
Well, the good ol’ sounds of Rock’n'Roll were what first caught my attention so I sat and listened to a few more songs.
A little ways down the street were a few booths promoting and recruiting people to help out in community clean up projects… a very worthy cause.
I really enjoyed how many of the street activities were gear towards the children of the area. A few smiles lit my face while I was watching the antics of these children doing a little light yoga!
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Jim Kogelheide
This is an excerpt from a recent press release: Jim Kogelheide is a visual artist, poet, musician and animation designer by accident. During a self-initiated walk across Southern Ontario in 1996 to gain support to halt the clear cutting of this planet’s last remaining old growth Red and White Pine forestlands found in the Temagami region, Jim found a breath of pure inspiration. “It was after this experience when I discovered that I had been given a special gift to share with the World.” In 1998 Jim began a visual art project that will (when completed in 2020?) find one specific creation in each of Canada’s thirteen provinces and territories. To date, he and his wife have lived in Manitoba, British Columbia and Nova Scotia where these art creations have been donated to elementary schools. ” I feel, deep in my heart, that the children of today will play the most significant part in creating a world structured on the actions of peace and love.” www.bitsandpeaces.com
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