04/23/2024
Happy Earth Day! This year's theme is Planet vs. Plastics. Please remember to reduce your usage of plastics. Recycle or reuse your plastic bags, cartons, cups, utensils, etc. Any amount of reduction in waste will help. In our office, we collect soda cans and donate them to the person we see collecting them from the trash. We can do this because once our garbage bag is filled, it goes into my trunk. We also give it to our patients who we know collect them. Just like the magazines we collect for our senior citizens to read in their residential home.
Books that are given to us are shared in the neighborhood little "library". I love the idea of sharing books in the neighborhood. Talking about books, we normally gift 2 of our favorite books to our newborn "future patients", The Brown Bear book and The Tooth book by Dr. Seuss. Isn't the second one obvious? If you ask, I can probably recite the tooth book for you.
I also give my barely worn or new clothes from my kids to my young patients. In my culture, it is believed that worn clothes have spirit in them. When a child is a good one, whoever wears their clothes will also be a good child. That is why I warn all my young patients and their parents about the clothes they are about to receive. I know some of you might think this is silly but there is some truth to the spirit in materials. Ask me about the floor length mirror at a consignment store in NE...scary.
Enjoy your Earth Day, earthlings. Save the planet for our kids and grandkids. Keep the air clean for ourselves and our other inhabitants. Life is a cycle, from plants to humans. Let's keep this cycle going for as long as possible for longevity sake.
