I use a blog post writing program/platform. I can do the fine tuning, linking, font, format prior to posting the draft to my blog dashboard.
These weblog files don’t get “stored” within my “libraries,” or document files. As well, draft posts range from “ready to post/posted” to just ideas with a line, or link and title/indicator.
So, sometimes I can think I’ve sent to finished draft over to the blog. I finished this in early May; and just realized that I had yet to send it over to my blog dashboard.
I am thankful for things green.
When leaves first emerge on trees, bushes, shrubs, plants, unfurling and stretching themselves towards the sun, the variants of green seem endless. Then early spring verdant kaleidoscope spins into more homogenous, but still incredible, late spring palette.
In the song, “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” Kermit the Frog laments:
It’s not that easy being green;
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.
When I think it could be nicer being red, or
yellow or gold-
or something much more colorful like that.
It’s not easy being green.
It seems you blend in with so many other
ordinary things.
And people tend to pass you over ’cause you’re
not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-
or stars in the sky.
But then, he realizes:
But green’s the color of Spring.
And green can be cool and friendly-like.
And green can be big like an ocean, or important
like a mountain, or tall like a tree.
When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
Wonder, I am green and it’ll do fine,
it’s beautiful!
And I think it’s what I want to be.
He embraces his greenness, just as we should embrace who we each are.
I “met” Kermit in a 1971 CBC co-production of the Frog Prince, with Kermit as the narrator, and his nephew, Robin, as the frog prince. This was not his first appearance on Canadian television. A special “Hey, Cinderella,” filmed in Toronto, and shown first on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in March 1968. Somehow, I missed that one.
Somewhere, tucked away in a box, I have a Kermit puppet – a birthday gift from a friend. I am thankful for Jim Henson’s vision, and sense of whimsy.
And, I am going greener! I already slip my vegetable kitchen scraps into the weekly yard waste pickup; recycle paper, cardboard, plastic and cans; shop with reusable bags, and reuse/repurpose/gift/donate. (image: time.com)
I want to do more so just ordered biodegradable plastic bags for our garbage; shop with an eye to the packaging’s recyclability. Bought gloves so I can pick up litter around town.
A PS: I now have my biodegradable/compostable “dirt bags” – yes that’s the name of the product – which look like grocery store bags, perfect fit for our under-the-sink garbage pail.
There are web sites and videos with advice and stimulating on-line videos advising how to organize clean-ups of local parks and waterways.
I do guerilla gardening; now adding guerilla garbage grabber to my environmentalist resume. Thus, I am thankful I can take at least a small stewardship action.
I am thankful for sharing this exquisite short animated film, The Man Who Planted Trees.
While following green threads to create this post, I came across the saying: There is no plan[et] b.
I am thankful for those who understand that once a plant, insect, bird, fish, animal is gone, there are no “do-overs;” no turning back the compass and the clock.
So, thankful for the slices of nature I have experienced; to be a citizen scientist; the chance to do some small act of defiance and act as a steward of one half turn of kaleidoscope of nature.
featured image: still from the animated film, The Man Who Planted Trees
May 27, 2019 at 3:21 pm
Green is life for me, I am always so happy to see the first glimpses of green in spring!
Kermit was on of the highlights on TV when I was a child.
Have a wonderful week ahead!
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June 1, 2019 at 9:44 pm
Hope you had a wonderful week. And thanks for stopping by.
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May 27, 2019 at 7:11 am
Hey! Good to ‘see’ you again.
Good message. We’re into that season here (in southern New England) where things are their greenest. While green in not necessarily my favorite color…color, we take the approach when it comes to landscaping: whatever manages to grow up through the ground surely has a right to continue. (We still mow the lawn, but do not buy into the unfortunate ‘grass supremacy’ that shows on the TV from the Dept of Home Depot. So our lawn tends to present a variety of lifeforms).
While we have a small Una garden, the light is not so good so vegetables struggle to grow. I am doing ‘driveway corn’ this year again, however.
Have a good summer.
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June 1, 2019 at 9:43 pm
Yes, green landscaping is the way to go!
Sorry I haven’t dropped by in ages. Long stories.
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May 27, 2019 at 3:39 am
A very informative message. I wasn’t familiar with the term guerilla gardening but certainly the concept.
I think so many things on this planet have not be cared for as they should have been and we are paying a terrible price for that lack of caring.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching Kermit again.
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June 1, 2019 at 9:42 pm
Yes, it really is time we all woke up and smelled the roses AND the garbage! Maybe the current generation will have the courage to change things.
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May 27, 2019 at 1:44 am
I grew up green saturated as it was my mother’s favorite color and went well with her tangerine lipstick. Military brat that I am, all walls were green. As an adult I had to take a green break. Now I’m one with the green again.
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June 1, 2019 at 9:41 pm
Thanks for reminding me of my childhood greens:
My dad was career member of the Armed Forces, too, so I knew all about camo even before it became trendy.
My mother was proud of our 1970s green fridge and stove. (The green fridge was the fridge down in the basement until I sold her house in 2011!; as a military family, that fridge saw alot of mileage.)
And we had a Camaro with a bumpy dark green top, and an almost lime green body.
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May 26, 2019 at 7:29 pm
Kermit is my favorite of all the Muppets, and i really like your take on stewardship. As i like to say, it does not matter if climates are changing because of human action or not, what matters is that we are the only ones on earth who can tend this beautiful garden, and we are doing a very, very poor job of it indeed. Something has to change, or several somethings, big and small.
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June 1, 2019 at 9:36 pm
Yes, I agree that we are doing are mainly abysmal stewards of this incredible garden Earth. And we are the only ones who can tend it with gentleness and love.
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May 26, 2019 at 10:31 am
Green, in all her mysterious shades and hues, from the eye-popping bright of limon (lime + lemon) to the brooding spruce … could it be possible to begin to name them all? LOL –
odd how such a colour can have so many different implications – of hope, re-birth and renewal, and innocence, to —- jaded, cynical and jealous.
And yes, how it all unfurls … slow to come yet breath-taking in Beauty. Always something new to see, from day to day.
As for Kermit? Such a treasure — and no, it’s not always easy being “green” – but then, perhaps, the true wonder, is learning to see all the sides, and choosing the one that best fits – sweet innocence (yet Kermit always struck me as a character I could relate to — filled with a tender sweetness, but in some ways, a deeper sadness) … Jim Henson was a true gem and visionary. :D
As for “being green” – in the efforts to minimalize or curb “damage” and maximize “protection”? Well, it’s difficult, isn’t it? Always so much conflict and just when you think you’ve done something good, you realize, more still to be done, or to reconsider — but I think it’s a fight worth pursuing. And most importantly, it needs to sit well within one’s heart and soul — we are nothing more than stewards on this marvelous planet – so all hands on deck, best foot forward, pockets full of wildflower seeds, and hoist the flag saying, I will not go quietly!
(sorry, I better stop, my brain is branching out, reaching for all shades of yellow – oh the sun for the clouds – and FINALLY – we HAVE —- LEAVES! The trees are wearing a new cloak!)
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June 1, 2019 at 9:33 pm
My husband took a picture this spring that actually captured a snippet of that palette. I will get him to send me a copy so I can share.
I miss the Jim Henson era muppets. Never been quite the same since. Except for Muppet Christmas Carol, perhaps. He was truly a special visionary sort.
And around here, I would love to walk the streets with pockets full of dandelion seeds to spread on the manicured lawns.
I don’t think either of us would ever go quietly . . . anywhere. lol
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June 2, 2019 at 8:36 am
LOL@the subversive “dandelion seeds in pocket” – you’re mindset pleases and delights me to no end — roflmao … 😈
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May 25, 2019 at 9:56 pm
I love the color green, too, and right now there is sure a lot of green around. The plants are really enjoying the rainy weather we’ve had. I haven’t even had to turn on my sprinklers yet this year!
Kermit the Frog, recycling, and guerrilla gardening–all good things!
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June 1, 2019 at 9:29 pm
Thanks Kristi.
I really should spend some time with the ttot folks — it’s heartening to read of the positives in peoples’ lives.
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