What happened to Earthday?

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

Today is Earthday?

I haven't heard anything about it...

But www.earthday.net/ says today's the day.

So improvising on the fly (that's redundant isn't it?), tonight I'm going to clean up the trash in the canyon where I like to do my jo/staff/spear kata. While the area I actually practice in is clear, just up the canyon aways there is a bunch of trash left by the homeless and/or drunk.

[Saionji Shonagon]

Otagiri said:

Today is Earthday?

Yep. Of course, I live in the heart of the sign-waving, Birki- wearing, tiedyed Great Bay Area Coprosperity - no, wait, that's something else. But it's all over the radio here.

Wrote this the other day in response to a tanka from Mistress Guernen about late spring storms in the Outlands:

Weep not for winter,
The snow maiden shall return
To haunt the mountains.
On the bay, the sun glints
My thoughts turn to kite flying.

Unfortunately, it's pouring here right now - and the kite books I ordered from Amazon have yet to arrive. ;-<

So improvising on the fly (that's redundant isn't it?), tonight I'm going to clean up the trash in the canyon where I like to do my jo/staff/spear kata.

It is a good son who cleans his room. ;->

Tread upon the earth
As you would in a temple,
Reverently soft.
Impermanent though it be,
It is all the more precious.

M.