UNLESS

I have always loved the environment - trees, vegetables, roses, flowers of all sorts etc. I liked weeding as a kid. Toilets or weeding- that is such an easy choice for me. In that same spirit, my favorite of Dr. Seuss's books has always been The Lorax. Last night, Nate and I were reading it and I thought this passage was most appropriate. It is the Once-ler's epiphany near the end of the book.

"But now," says the Once-ler,

"Now that you're here,

the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear.

UNLESS someone like you

cares a whole awful lot,

nothing is going to get better,

It's not.

My hope for this upcoming Earth Day is that we all start to "care a whole awful lot!" or this planet is not "going to get better. It's not."