🌎 Earth Day 🌎
Earth Day is coming up, and I feel the familiar flutter of gratitude for our planetary home.
It is the time Spring is in full bloom in the countryside around us. When Earth’s bounty surrounds us, it is hard to not feel like we really must be foolish to ravage Mother Earth the way we do with our greed and pointless consumption.
It is the time I moon about outside, reveling in the lengthening days of spring, and watching the stars peep outside. A couple of days ago when the full moon rose a- beautiful golden orb in the sky, I gasped, and thought of the image taken from there that led to the creation of Earth Day as a concept.
Books Celebrating Our Life on Earth
Children’s books are one of the best resources for celebrating our marvelous planet. Authors like Oliver Jeffers seem to know the knack of grounding us while making us soar high above the Earth to see our home.
These two, in recent times, have had me humming.
If you come to Earth – by Sophie Blackall
The premise of the book is not unheard of. It is narrated by a boy named Quinn who introduces a visiting alien to Planet Earth. The pictures are a delight, and the book is charming in itself. The narrator show the esteemed visitor all the places
- Where we live – towns, cottages, villages, towns, cities, high-rise buildings.
- What we do – the range of occupations was truly fascinating to see. (I also had a little doubting-deborah contest trying to see which of these jobs would be around in a decade and in a century)
- How we read, speak, and communicate – languages, written alphabet, morse code, braille
And so many more aspects of life.
The best part of the book to me was the note by the author at the very end. I always seem to relish notes by the author, and this one went on to delight.
Excerpt from the Author’s Note:
Nourish-n-Cherish 