You Are a Natural Resource

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Thinking and Thoughts

If you don’t live in an agricultural area experiencing extreme drought, you may not know the joy of waking up in the morning to the sound of rain.
In urban areas a drought may mean your favorite fountain or the community swimming pool is closed.
Drought strikes fear with a meaning closer to the heart in an agricultural area.
The fields and orchards are dry and bare.
Your neighbors lose income, whether farmer or farm worker.
The usual abundance of fresh local produce at the farmer’s market is limited.
Local food banks offer drought relief programs.
Home gardens struggle in the heat without adequate water. Sometimes the gardener without access to grey water, stops growing all together, complying with water restrictions.
Forest fires are a constant danger.
Without rain and wind the chemicals used by corporate growers move into the valleys and create layers of life threatening pollution.
The children and the elderly are susceptible to respiratory diseases and the daily news reports caution folks to stay inside.
And then it rains.
You want to dance.
To take off your clothes and run naked through the drops.
Offer praise to the Gods.
Open all of the windows and let the cool, clean, wet air in.
Natural resources.
Life can’t exist without them.

What efforts do you make in your daily life to conserve our natural resources?
Yas
y.sabur@gmail.com

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