QotD: I'm Going Green
Happy Earth Day! What are some of your favorite ways to reduce, reuse and recycle?
I'm a magpie and so I have a very hard time throwing something away that might be used again somehow. I have a huge stash of "stuff" I reuse in my art. It's hard for me to throw any "good" thing away because you never know when you might want to use it. "Good" things in my life include boxes of old fabric, interesting pieces of metal- rusty and not, paper, paper, and more paper.
So the short answer is I reuse stuff in mixed media art- like collage and mosaic.
Here's a copy of the lyrics of my all-time favorite Earth song by the most wonderful Tom Chapin.
One day she spun out of the Sun.
Did she know at the hour of her birth?
That she'd cool and she'd bloom and one day become
The garden we know as the Earth.
CHORUS: Happy happy Earth Day, / Happy happy Earth Day.
From the schools of leaping dolphins and the herds of kangaroo
Happy Earth Day to you.
2.
We celebrate your waterfalls, your glaciers and typhoons,
The sweet smell of your meadows on rainbow afternoons.
The northern lights on starry nights and when the night is gone
The fiery magic of your dawn,
CHORUS 2: Happy happy Earth Day, / Happy happy Earth Day.
From the fields of chirping crickets and the frogs of Blue Bayou
Happy Earth Day to you.
3.
From the highest Himalaya to the mountains under sea,
From the frozen tip of Greenland to the sands of Galilee.
We're gathering together to raise our voice in song
And pledge to keep you green and strong.
CHORUS 3: Happy happy Earth Day. / Happy happy Earth Day.
Every time I smell a flower or feel the morning dew
Every time I see a baby learning something new,
I'm amazed again how blessed we are and it's all thanks to you.
Happy Earth Day to you. / Happy Earth Day to you.
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