More musings

Well trash clean up did not go as planned this weekend, my son wanted to help but was “busy”, my daughter turned up her nose at cleaning up in the mud, and my wife’s schedule did not allow her to help. I was able to pick up some, ½ a bag full before life got in the way. As I picked up I did not really see a difference as everywhere I turned there seemed to be more and more trash that had migrated our way this winter. I suppose if I had the time to truly devote to the task there would have been better results. Just pondering here, is this the cycle that we live in, we are diligent about keeping things picked up in the spring summer and fall when the white stuff hits we all seem to forget about those things. Is it the same in our homes? Is that why there is spring cleaning? Out with the old? How hard is it to keep up these practices year round? Does it become habbit? One of my college coaches used to muse that it took 75,000 reps to make it a habit so we should just keep doing it and then it would become natural. I wonder if that is true. Something to think about. So we go about our cycles and try and break out of those that we can and put others on new orbits.

Recycling update. Wow there is a lot that can be recycled and I would say that our garbage has been cut by at least 1/3 as that 1/3 goes into recycling bags. It also has occurred that there is a little more work that goes into it as the separation cause multiple trips to the containers. But this is good because it is exercise. I wonder though as we rinse out all the cans, bottles, soda containers with water, how much water are we wasting trying to have less messy recycle areas? Surely, the cost is worth it just pondering the cost analysis. “For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction”, I think about this as we do the little things to help out.

I wonder the same about global warming and the hype that has surrounded it lately. Truly, it is a concern especially for future generations and our actions today will affect tomorrow, but is it an eschatological issue right NOW? I honestly do not know, the right says, “ you are blowing it out of proportion.” The left says, “the sky is falling, the sky is falling.” So what does that leave for those of us in the middle? Are we to become alertist for either side or should we be the voices of reason? I ask again because I do not have the answer. Frankly, I do not have the time to ponder it to much in the day to day thing we call life. Which leads me to my next post on living life more plainly…….