The alarm clock went off at 5:45am and as i reached to turn it off i saw an orange luminescence out the window. i jumped out of bed, grabbed my camera and rushed to the front deck. There in all its stunning good looks and captivating drapery was the moon.
Gazing at the moon has made us all do time with the universe and i admit i was a prisoner locked into the moment. It wasn’t until it started to set that i started clicking. i put the best photo on Facebook and got ready to swim.
A relatively flat ocean with partly cloudy skies waited for the thirteen swimmers that decided to answer. We massed on the beach and in the water, adjusting our masks, putting on our flippers, and tucking up stray strands of hair in our caps. We marveled at how lucky we were to have clear water for its not just about the exercise with us, its also about the connection to nature.
Unfortunately my grandchildren may never know or see the ocean the way i have and that makes me sad.
Our connection to our world and everything around us whether you live by the ocean, desert, prairie, or mountains is a part of who we are as human beings. We live, breath and work in a world that is being damaged as I write. We all see tangible changes to our environments that need new solutions for fixing.
Americans have always been on the forefront of positive change. We can create healthy safe communities that protect our future children's world and make our world healthier. Changing how we attack the damage to our environment is better for our families, for us and for the future of the world.
We all want healthy safe communities. We already try to protect our families but we could do more. Using clean energy instead of dirty energy benefits everyone. Its good for our cities and rural areas, good for our people, it saves money and it creates new jobs and industries.
Why wouldn’t we want a healthier world?
Today we already have low-cost, reliable wind and solar power. People all over the country are seeing wind farms and solar panel facilities spring up and pump clean energy into their homes and businesses. American ingenuity has helped make this more of a reality in a relatively short period of time. But we need more of it so we can focus on clean energy and a healthy world instead of dirty energy and a sick world.
Think how lovely it would be to not have to drive your car into a gas station. Or how you would feel powering your own house with your own solar panels?
We Americans can lead the world if we would only get off our duffs and look towards a clean future. We are innovators, we can come up with solutions, we can make clean energy affordable for everyone if we only put our minds and ability towards living in a healthy world.
Don’t you want to leave a world where the air is clean and the water is drinkable?
We should be proud that we can create a cleaner world. Let's do it.
See ya next week
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