Make days count

When you realize that you have fewer days ahead of you than days behind you…

I can not tell you how much that has changed my thinking. 

best make them count…

#RandOMTHoUGhts

jh

I've got to get this off my chest...

I've said for years! Deforestation is not 'just' about trees; it's about the survival of every species of animals, including us.

Think about the fundamental thing we were taught in school about what trees do!

TREES CLEAN THE AIR.

FACT: Carbon dioxide (CO2) building up in our atmosphere, is the major contributor to climate change.

FACT: Trees absorb CO2, removing and storing the carbon while releasing oxygen back into the air. In just one year, one acre of mature trees can absorb enough CO2 produced when you drive your car 26,000 miles.

However, we continue to destroy our forests at an alarming rate; and blame other industries for climate change?

I consider myself an environmentalist. However, let’s be clear, I would say that I am a “pragmatic environmentalist.”

I believe there is far too much negative focus on the O&G industry, all the while other industries are going on completely unchallenged and destroying large, sensitive tracts of land.

Let’s talk about clearcutting. So many areas in our headwaters are being destroyed. However, there is nary a peep about the damage done. Why? Because there are companies (people) that profit from all the negative focus on the oil and gas industry, while the destruction of our forests continues unchallenged.

The Alberta governments proposal to build the Maclean and Springbank dry dams are incredibly bad ideas with potentially devastating results. The problem is not the river! It is the rapid drainage from destroying forests upstream!

All the same, Alberta Environment is allowing continued destruction to the watershed upstream! We should be correcting harm, not causing more of it.

So, let's be clear here; bringing the O&G industry in Alberta to its knees is not helpful on so many levels. The revenues that are received by all levels of government go a long way to pay for and support other industries here. YES.. including "green" industries.

( Ok, I will step off my soap-box now )

HEY? Do you have the time?

How many days have gone by where you planned to get certain chores or tasks done but then at the end of that day you've realized that you accomplished absolutely nothing that you set out to do that day?

What's more important is that you have the realization that you’ve achieved nothing that you have set out to do for yourself. The goals, the dreams, the adventures that you keep tucked away in your head as a “someday”, “when I have time”, “I will do this….. But that day…never seems to come.

We are trapped in lives of busyness, and sooth ourselves through distractions, addictions or whatever. Leisure time is now the stuff of myth and taking time to think and dream about what you truly want to do in your life is frowned upon and viewed as selfish and self indulgent. “better get back to work on that “busy” list that you did nothin about today….”

Our time on Earth is uncertain and fleeting best! This is why it is vitally important for everyone, to take some deep breaths, think deep thoughts and smell some roses. Take the time to really take stock in what it is that you want to do with this life that you have and begin to create the life that you really want and deserve.

"Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day 

Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. 

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town 

Waiting for someone or something to show you the way."

~ Pink Floyd - Time

government sanctioned......

….With so many oil spills, pipeline failures, toxic spills into the water ways and Governments seemingly unwillingness or lack of interest in penalizing these companies with REAL penalties …… makes me wonder if this is Government sanctioned population control?