...sorry to sadden anybody...
but the truth is clear...
we do need to make a difference,
the time is now... not near...
... each drop saved,
each hour a light bulb is not lit,
every piece of packaging avoided,
one plastic bag recycled,
...methane and garbage avoided...
every piece ...every one thing...
conserve it now...make do
it's time to try and trick mother earth,
into thinking there's not really 6 billion of us...
but only two....

my heart is very sad about it,
but I think your words fine ...
...the Mayans' believed that 2012
was when we'd walk the line...

collect some tin foods,
get a torch that doesn't need batteries,
find a small radio that does...
get some thermal underwear,
and a warm coat or two...
maybe install an open fire place
because soon,
...you'll never know...
what the weather might do...

if you live on the coast,
ensure you have a dinghy,
or a small little tin boat,
....even if it's the bath tub,
you're gonna need something that floats...

It sounds funny, doesn't it?
...tragedy always does... but
It's not a joke...
...I really wish it was...
change is in the air,
...ready or not!

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November 29th 2006 @ 02:39

Posted By: Lilla - Category: Arts

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What's Your Oldest Posession?

I think at some stage, all us think of recycling and reusing ... its only natural I guess, as most of us were bought up to only take what we needed. Well I was and I have a long string of friends all with odd little contraptions and things that just cannot be thrown away. One of my favourites is my friends egg whisker, which(I believe) was a salvaged artifact from when they found Noahs Ark on Mt Arrarat and which she found in a market street bazaar in downtown Cairo.

I'm talking my old rusty watering can. My old blue denim skirt with the frayed edges and my old bomb car that I just keep getting repaired. I could replace these things, with nice shiney new things, but I don't....

There's the toaster, which although I could replace it, I won't. There's the old metal lawn sprinkler that Grandad Olga left behind, which I can't use anymore because of water restrictions, but just incase one day it pours and pours, I cannot throw it away. In my mind it cannot be replaced with any new fangled thang-o-matic, no matter how much it costs - and even it makes Tea too...

I'm not talking books either, because they should never be sold, full stop!

You'd be thinking by now, this woman's house must be soooo cluttered of old thengs she can't throw away. Wrong, I'm actually quite a minimalist (well not in the austere sense), but in a way that doesn't give me headaches. I guess I just don't need much to get by. Anyway, I began to wonder whilst out and about today, what other people might have stored away that is old and irreplacebale. So, speak up folks, [I will respond in verse] what is it that mass marketing cannot tempt you to replace in your household?

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October 27th 2006 @ 08:28

Posted By: Lilla - Category: Arts

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