If I Could Speak Loon

If I Could Speak Loon
By Karen I. Shragg

If I could speak Loon
Or maybe Egret
Heron would be nice
I’d tell them all to fly further
Than the gulf this year
Look down my friends
The ocean there
is the color of greed
the consistency of deregulation
Don’t land where you have before
Don’t follow in the wingsteps
Of your ancestors
Not this time
Fly beyond the blackened oily waters
That have already ended so many
unsuspecting lives
Who would never understand
What befell them
even if I could speak loon
or egret or even heron
Where on earth would I begin?

Ecological Footprint

We still are not getting the fact the there are limited resources on this planet. We are not getting it in the sizes of our homes. We are beginning to get it when it comes to consuming local food and giving up our plastic bags. But watch how coming into money suddenly makes a person believe they need to surround themselves with thousands of square feet of limited planetary resources.

In our neighborhood a couple had 37 trees cut down to put up a 10,000 square foot home which must now be air conditioned and heated in a Mn climate for just TWO people. They can afford it, some will say,,, yeah but the Earth can't I reply