More from southern bliss

Sharing some albums with you all. I had a great trip back to my parent’s home and ate too much of my mom’s superb cooking.

April at the Cat’s Farm

April at Cat’s Farm Continued

Happy Earth Day!

Hope everyone finds a way to conserve some energy and forms a habit that helps reduce waste. I do appreciate Earth Day and will be positive for the most part — except to say that I agree with the CCFC’s (Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood) founders in this Huffington Post article. The underlying theme is that reducing consumption is key to saving the planet and commercializing Earth Day is counter-productive.

Now, slight grunting aside, here are a few other things to read that may inspire or help you think about simple ways to reduce your negative impact on the environment.

• How to save water
• Proper tire inflation
• Take up a few good habits
• Cut your paper footprint

I could do this all day. Let’s all start with reading some of these and picking one thing you could start doing for the rest of your life.

Happy Earth Day!! Now go hug a hippy.

hollow

One would think I’d be brimming with the fullness of the month. April is for poetry and libraries — both of which are my bag. It also gives us some of the richest southern moments when everything wakes from winter slumber and pushes, buds and petal spreads. I see it. I hear it. I do love it. But it doesn’t seem to enter me.

In fact, if anything, I’m hollow. Maybe it’s burning the candle at both ends and starting in the middle, but I don’t even think I’d muster much of a shadow right now. Don’t get me wrong — physically I’m the full flesh pot. No diminishing there. But cookies are no compensation for the soul and right now, my soul is still shrouded in dirt waiting for some warmth to call. In the meantime, the real mean time, I’ll just keep tending the books, pushing the words, shadowing life.

And you? Are you full yet?

Energy burn

Maybe I do need children after all? No, that’s silly, I can borrow those too.
Saturday I worked at the library, longingly looked outside at the lovely day that was shaping up. After all that pent up energy, I thought it wise when released back into the world to head to the Howard-Barrs and disturb their Saturday plans. I found Darryl in the yard making home improvements so I borrowed gloves and a t-shirt and tried to help out. It’s a major drawback of apartment living that you have to borrow someones yard in order to get really dirty.
After that I borrowed Lori and Heather and Mendy for some diner and drinks at the standard, the Highlander. Mendy and I noticed that it is about to celebrate its 17th anniversary and I believe she and I have been there for all 17 of those years. We ended the night with chocolate and laughter that went on until 2. Very fun and I am ashamed to say that I slaughtered any chance of Mendy being able to enjoy Twilight with my not too kind candor. My cheeks hurt the next day from all of the hilarity. As I told Mendy the next day, those are some wrinkles I’ll enjoy.
And now my work week begins and there is bad news in my adopted country of Italy. It doesn’t seem that the earthquake hit Florence, but still send good thoughts to those impacted and debris lifting vibes to those lending a hand.