TheBanyanTree: Earth Day

[Margaret R. Kramer]

Usually Ray and I have a little “snuggle” time on Saturday mornings and I do
my run in the early afternoon.  But a woman was coming over to learn about
web site construction and she was going to teach me about Quark, so I wanted
to get my run done early.  You can see where “snuggle time” fits on my
priority list!

It rained the night before, so everything was still damp.  And the greens of
the grasses and the new leaves on the trees are spectacular for this early
in April.  The morning had a special glisten to it.

The park was filled with sounds of birds.  I saw ducks and geese and herons
swimming in the ponds.  I saw cardinals and sparrows and red winged
blackbirds working on their nests.

Since I’ve been back from the cruise, it’s been difficult for me to run.  My
legs felt like lead and swelled up like watermelons after I was done.   My
knees throbbed and ached. But on this morning, as I loped around the paths,
I felt an incredible peace inside.  My legs and arms and heart and lungs
were working hard, but my mind was at rest.

People were gathering at a point by the parking lot and taking yellow
colored garbage bags.  It was the annual Earth Day clean-up at our Twin City
parks.  These volunteers (and sadly, I’m not one of them, but maybe next
year) clean-up the winter’s trash and make the parks beautiful for the
summer.  I made sure to thank the various clean-up groups as I ran by them.

It was on to tanning after my run.  The foggy skies had given way to dark
clouds and it was pouring when I left the tanning place.  It rained the rest
of the day.  It was a good soaking rain which made everything just another
shade greener.

Margaret R. Kramer
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I see great things in baseball.  It's our game - the American game.  It will
take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger
physical stoicism.  Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set.
Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
~Walt Whitman