Greening up

Lovely and patently persuasive Lotus has initiated "Project Support Beauty in Nature". To the extent that those of us who continue to be buried in snow can participate, I encourage you to do so. This is what I am doing: My son Zachary is attending a school where the students are required to perform a certain number of hours of community service in order to graduate. Zach has been volunteering at the Library in town, and has performed certain functions for political candidates on a non-partisan basis. I have gained approval from the school for Zach to work with me on a 'Road Adoption' project in which he and I will clean and maintain the cleanliness of 1 mile of a local, highly traveled piece of road in our community. Our first whack at it, this last Saturday, netted two of those big, black construction bags of garbage. We would have gotten more, I'm sure, but the snow and ice hid a lot of what's there. We were half froze to death by the time we got done - plenty of hot chocolate, however, assisted in the process of thawing out. I'm pretty sure the first time we go down that road after the snow melts, we will wind up with WAY more garbage than that.

Thank you, Lotus, for inspiring us to get off our duffs and do something positive. I thank you, my community thanks you, and the Chocolate Industry thanks you, as well.