TwLitter Begins

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This is the beginning of a social experiment in the raising of consciousness in one area of life - our immediate surroundings on the streets of our communities. Litter, Trash, Debris.

Some of you reading this will be inspired to participate, some will not. Either way the simple effect of placing the information where it can be seen and followed is to create a focus point.

In meditation to focus one's attention on the area of the "third eye" is to cause a reaction in that location. The reaction is: that the more one focuses upon the location the more it becomes sensitive to the attention. . .

Trash, litter, debris, waste..., whatever you call we all have to deal with it. How does the trash in your neck of the woods affect your daily life? Do you see trash on the side of the road, street or yard and feel compelled to pick it up, regardless if its yours or not, or do you simply leave it where it lies in hopes that it won't be there when you return? Does the presence of loose debris in your fair city bring down the neighborhood you grew up in, go to work in or come home to? What are your thoughts on what can or should be done to get a handle on overwhelming piles of trash?

A couple of sites worth looking at:

http://www.litterproject.com/ http://www.cleanthebay.org/

While the world is rightly focused on the problem of Global Warming there continues to be issues such as this one that although smaller, has a more immediate impact and is at some level directly connected to the larger problem. I recently heard on the radio about a huge (the size of Texas) dense soup of refuse being identified in the Atlantic composed of tons and tons of plastics mixed into other unidentified waste products. Here is a link to that information. We consider this to be a truly important media-ignored revelation: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-vortex

Please use the Follow Me link function on the upper right of this blog to work with us and please consider the following questions as you post your thoughts:

• What litter did you see today?
• What did you do about it?
• How did your action or lack of action make you feel?
• Is litter really a problem?
• Would you like to see more of it?
• What can be done in the future if we do see littering as a problem?
• What good deed did you see today?
• What was beautiful today?

Thanks to Brent Donaway for his contributions to this blog.