Earth Day

I remember the first Earth Day. I was chairman of my local Environmental Commission and very involved in the movement. When my children and I went anywhere, I came home with a purse full of wrappers, tissues, and popsicle sticks. We were in the car, a compact, crossing over the Manasquan River. The sun was shining and glancing off the water. There was so much hope for the future of the earth. People recycled because it was the right thing to do, not because it was the law.
Now the land is scarred again, newspapers and empties line the road and it seems nobody cares. I remember a project I did in college using photos of Ocean County and the words of Native Americans. One phrase stays in my mind, "The earth weeps" It wept then and it weeps today. If you are reading this, please try to heal it's wounds and wipe away it's tears.