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Happy Earth Day!
Apr. 22nd, 2010 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melannenSo, what did you all do for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day?
I went to my area's Interfaith Earth Day celebration, and got a chance to shake hands with the Governor. And heard a talk from the bishop of the episcopal diocese of Maryland, as well as discussions about caring for Creation from an imam and a rabbi and a member of the local friends meetingand planted something with instructions from a master gardener, and drank some whole milk that hadn't been homogenized (for the first time in my life!), and talked about resources for local food in my area, and discussed rain gardens, and signed a petition for clean energy, and got all fired up again about growing my own food; I have a day off tomorrow and may spend it planting things. (They will all die by July, but at least I will have planted them.) Also, interfaith services *always* have the best songs, because they always end up going for the ones about the glory of Creation and how to live in it.
And then I sat down and worked on some long-overdue Fecundity Project posts.
In re: fecundity project, I just finally got a real old-fashioned herbal of my very own - the Dover reprint of the 1936 "Modern Herbal" in two volumes by Mrs. M. Greive, to be exact. It was $1 at a church rummage sale last week, and I am in raptures. Also, *utterly lost* - I thought I had a good vocabulary and was reasonably skilled at reading about folk medicine, and then I started this book. As part of my Earth Day observation I sat and made a list of words for things medicinal plants do, according to this book. How many of them do you know ( from this list? )
I went to my area's Interfaith Earth Day celebration, and got a chance to shake hands with the Governor. And heard a talk from the bishop of the episcopal diocese of Maryland, as well as discussions about caring for Creation from an imam and a rabbi and a member of the local friends meetingand planted something with instructions from a master gardener, and drank some whole milk that hadn't been homogenized (for the first time in my life!), and talked about resources for local food in my area, and discussed rain gardens, and signed a petition for clean energy, and got all fired up again about growing my own food; I have a day off tomorrow and may spend it planting things. (They will all die by July, but at least I will have planted them.) Also, interfaith services *always* have the best songs, because they always end up going for the ones about the glory of Creation and how to live in it.
And then I sat down and worked on some long-overdue Fecundity Project posts.
In re: fecundity project, I just finally got a real old-fashioned herbal of my very own - the Dover reprint of the 1936 "Modern Herbal" in two volumes by Mrs. M. Greive, to be exact. It was $1 at a church rummage sale last week, and I am in raptures. Also, *utterly lost* - I thought I had a good vocabulary and was reasonably skilled at reading about folk medicine, and then I started this book. As part of my Earth Day observation I sat and made a list of words for things medicinal plants do, according to this book. How many of them do you know ( from this list? )
