Today we hauled trash from our river, the Skokie...someone spotted a crayfish as it jumped from a submerged roll of carpet and lost itself in the mud. This synthetic fiber carpet was not obviously deteriorated after at least three and a half years submerged under the current.

The two bike paths meet at the "Rainbow Bridge," the old carpet was dropped, as I observed from the north side of the structure, a short walk from roadside parking or perhaps from some nearby home. I saw it there, and then after a large rain, it was gone, swept into the downstream mud.

Disposal has become a costly matter and, like at the river, garbage and bags of garbage are left anonymously on the side of roads. We've all seen this, haven't we, I suppose, maybe they think the other guy will clean up the mess.

Aren't there those who care? Care enough required for saving the WORLD! Check it out and make a difference. In your community, talk to people, share your appreciation of nature. We must all do what we can, a million points of change, vision the future!

How incredble how integrated communications and technology has become and I am able to so well use it. For my business activities, which is all of a one man(person) operation, is now fully mobile!

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Standing Strong!

American Family, Standing Strong for that which is most precious, the land!

Who is the other guy and why is he me?

This is my favorite time of year in the forest. Its spring and our woods are carpeted with wild geranium, leek, spring beauty to name a few. Soaking up an abundance of spring sunshine they flourish isolated and patchy, and with a scarcity of habitat, they bloom on, unaware of their perilous existence. Isn't it a pathetic thought that I may share this appreciation with other people. They might join the movement of people who believe we can save this world from mankind(ourselves), power and self interest do not blind us, we are guilty. We were always guilty and then we convinced ourselves, we are better than the other guy, in reality, we are worse. Promoting and living this illusion, our purpose is not promoting improvement or ideas, only just staying comfortable, fashionable, and thinking this is big stuff!

Are we not too late or is this just as it must be, we can make a difference, failure is not an option.

I suggest, "Living a life as an example to others" or "doing something to help people or nature."