Not for the easily offended…
It’s time to get back to blogging and I’ve been told that I can be a little over zealous with my sarcastic humor. Well, in my defense I take my job very seriously, often being considered a bit too grave when I teach. So here’s the deal….if I don’t balance my work as an anti-chemical educator and business owner with a bit of offensive verbiage, then I’m doomed to take the undulations of life with the severity that my job lends me. And I just won’t do it. For a long time I have overcome situations with humor and mockery, much of which was self deprecating for my own fun and humility.
When I teasingly abuse my partner, Amy, in print, she knows it’s with love (she’s the one who makes me write this blog!) and more often than not, Bertha, our mermaid, is unoffended and quite proud of her bad behavior.
But let’s get back to the real deal….I am a passionate person who believes that if we (earthly beings collectively) don’t wake up very soon that the cancer rates are going to continue to soar, our eco-system is going to continue to mutate and our oceans are going to be the other word for poop. Yes, I just wrote that and here’s why. I am once again traveling and spent the week looking forward to a day on the beach in Ft Lauderdale with my son, Bowie. Sat morning, nice breakfast, gorgeous day and WHAT? News flash….NO ONE TO GO INTO THE WATER TODAY DUE TO SEWAGE OVERFLOW ON THE BEACHES OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA. We got an amazing amount of rain yesterday causing the overflow but what does it have to do with chemicals? or this blog?
BALANCE. Normal, natural balance of people and the earth. Not having so much waste that we cannot control it…not having so many babies that the earth cannot sustain it and when we do, not educating them enough to take care of this place that we are allowed to call home for a few years in this life. We need to pay attention! Start wondering how it is that we’ve managed to destroy an entire planet because of our obsessive need for convenience.
So here’s my last thought after that and for those of you who don’t want to span beyond conventional thinking, chance your ways or find me insulting with my writing…keep polluting our beautiful world and keep your eyes squeezed shut. I’m still going to try to make an impact even if it means I have to shake things up a bit. After all, history doesn’t remember the people who behave.
And I, once again, have failed at being inoffensive.
July 28th, 2009 at 2:26 am
I love this!!! Thank you. I get such a hard time from my mother when I do the same thing about fast food. I am a health counselor and have a responsibilty to see that people know what they are putting in their body is garbage and that if they don’t stop and pay attention they are going to end up seriously ill or dead. And she tells me to stop giving people a hard time about their food. No way jose! You choose to eat garbage I will let you know what you are doing to yourself. Don’t get me started.
So I love that you are open and offensive about it because sometimes being to super sappy sweet is just not gonna cut it! People need to indeed WAKE UP. What is it going to take??? Seriously! Raw truth is the only way. It’s funny, your offense is more like a breath of fresh air to me. =) Good luck…I am on your side.