Its the 40th celebration of Earth Day today. I am so glad that people went out of their way 40 years ago to start increasing awareness about taking care of the earth. I loved this morning when I heard a reporter say that it started out as a “hippie event”. Don’t you love that what started out as a fringe topic today will be observed by a BILLION people! That is amazing growth! What are you doing for Earth Day? I read recently that Americans are wasting nearly half their food. I think that is crazy, but probably very true. I know that frequently I take more food than I end up eating. What I am proposing this week to my family (and you) is to be aware of how much food you take/cook/serve and see if you can cut it down to get less waste. I am not talking about being a member of “the clean plate club”. I think that mindset has not helped our obesity problem in this country. But rather what I am saying is for us to think about the amount of food we take, we eat, and we dispose of. Two weeks ago we had our group of yoga teacher trainees at the studio for a weekend of training, I was cleaning up the first night after they left and I found a beautiful little ceramic cup on the counter. It was a little cup that one of the people used for their dinner. I was thinking about how we tend to supersize everything these days, and this person was instead putting their meal into a special little cup that they could focus on and appreciate. That is what I want to work on for me. I challenge you to pay attention for the next couple of days and see if you can waste less, and be more aware in the process of what and how you are eating. Enjoy this beautiful Earth Day everyone!
Its Earth Day! What can you do?
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