Charles Baudelaire📖Le Balcon🗣Serge Reggiani

Le Balcon

Charles Baudelaire

(1821-1867)

Les Fleurs du Mal

Le Balcon, poème de Charles Baudelaire, est tiré du recueil Les Fleurs du Mal publié en 1857 (section Spleen et Idéal). 

Baudelaire évoque les souvenirs de ses soirées heureuses en compagnie d'une femme (Jeanne Duval). Celle-ci tient le rôle principal et une place centrale dans ce poème.

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Mère des Souvenirs, Maîtresse des Maîtresses,
Ô toi, tous mes plaisirs ! ô toi, tous mes devoirs !
Tu te rappelleras la beauté des caresses,
La douceur du foyer et le charme des soirs,
Mère des souvenirs, maîtresse des maîtresses !
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Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon,
Et les soirs au balcon, voilés de vapeurs roses.
Que ton sein m'était doux ! que ton cœur m'était bon !
Nous avons dit souvent d'impérissables choses
Les soirs illumines par l'ardeur du charbon.
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Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes soirées !
Que l'espace est profond ! que le cœur est puissant !
En me penchant vers toi, reine des adorées,
Je croyais respirer le parfum de ton sang.
Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes soirées !
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La nuit s'épaississait ainsi qu'une cloison,
Et mes yeux dans le noir devinaient tes prunelles,
Et je buvais ton souffle, ô douceur ! ô poison !
Et tes pieds s'endormaient dans mes mains fraternelles.
La nuit s'épaississait ainsi qu'une cloison.
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Je sais l'art d'évoquer les minutes heureuses,
Et revis mon passé blotti dans tes genoux.
Car à quoi bon chercher tes beautés langoureuses
Ailleurs qu'en ton cher corps et qu'en ton cœur si doux ?
Je sais l'art d'évoquer les minutes heureuses !

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Ces serments, ces parfums, ces baisers infinis,
Renaîtront-ils d'un gouffre interdit à nos sondes,
Comme montent au ciel les soleils rajeunis
Après s'être lavés au fond des mers profondes ?
- Ô serments ! ô parfums ! ô baisers infinis !
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal/1857/Le_Balcon

  Le Balcon
Serge Reggiani
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https://youtu.be/eKVh_YQXC8A

Dans le poème Le Balcon, Baudelaire rappelle le souvenir d’une femme aimée avec laquelle il a connu une relation fraternelle et amoureuse ambivalente. Mais surtout, il chante l’harmonie de ce souvenir, le suggère en lui redonnant puissance et pouvoir émotionnel. Le poète s'interroge sur le bonheur passé et sur le possible retour de ce bonheur dans le futur.

I. Le Lyrisme

1. L'énonciation
2. Importance des sensations et des sentiments
3. L'accord avec l'univers

II. Un cadre intime

1. L'intimité amoureuse
2. Des lieux clos
3. Des fins de journées

III. Une remémoration

1. Des souvenirs heureux, de plaisir
2. Cadre temporel instable
3. Evocation et invocation
4. De l'espérance à la crainte

Majas al Balcone  🎨  Francisco Goya

Le Balcon  🎨  Edouard Manet

 1868-1869

The Balcony

Addressed to Baudelaire’s mistress Jeanne Duval, this is one of the most beautiful poems of one of the world’s greatest poets. The original French poem is followed by several different English translations. I have put the three relatively literal prose translations first because I want to encourage you to try reading the original, even if you know little or no French. The verse renderings all have significant and in many cases ludicrous flaws. Often they distort the meaning or even fabricate some totally different meaning (usually in order to come up with a rhyme); but even when they stay fairly close to the original sense there are invariably passages that strike a false note, words or phrases that just don’t have the right tone or rhythm. At best, some of the English versions sometimes give a hint of the original. More often they merely serve as object lessons in the difficulties of translation.

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Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses,
O you, all my pleasure, O you, all my duty!
You'll remember the sweetness of our caresses,
The peace of the fireside, the charm of the evenings.
Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses!
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The evenings lighted by the glow of the coals,
The evenings on the balcony, veiled with rose mist;
How soft your breast was to me! how kind was your heart!
We often said imperishable things,
The evenings lighted by the glow of the coals.

How splendid the sunsets are on warm evenings!
How deep space is! how potent is the heart!
In bending over you, queen of adored women,
I thought I breathed the perfume in your blood.
How splendid the sunsets are on warm evenings!
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The night was growing dense like an encircling wall,
My eyes in the darkness felt the fire of your gaze
And I drank in your breath, O sweetness, O poison!
And your feet nestled soft in my brotherly hands.
The night was growing dense like an encircling wall.
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I know the art of evoking happy moments,
And live again our past, my head laid on your knees,
For what's the good of seeking your languid beauty
Elsewhere than in your dear body and gentle heart?
I know the art of evoking happy moments.
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Those vows, those perfumes, those infinite kisses,
Will they be reborn from a gulf we may not sound,
As rejuvenated suns rise in the heavens
After being bathed in the depths of deep seas?
— O vows! O perfumes! O infinite kisses!

* William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil 

         (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)

https://fleursdumal.org/poem/133

Le Balcon - Baudelaire  - Reggiani
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Charles Curtis * 1st Vice President of Color? 🏹 Kaw People

Who Was Charles Curtis

The First Vice President of Color?

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A member of the Kaw Nation, Curtis served under Herbert Hoover

But he left a troubling legacy on Native American issues.
Smithsonian Magazine *  Livia Gershon

In 2021, Senator Kamala Harris made history as the first woman, first African American, and first person of South Asian heritage to become vice president of the United States. But she wasn’t the first person of color to take the office. That honor belongs to Charles Curtis, an enrolled member of the Kaw Nation who served as President Herbert Hoover’s veep for his entire first term from 1929 to 1933. Prejudice against Native Americans was widespread and intense at the time, but Curtis’s ascent to the office speaks to his skillful navigation of the political system. His rise also tells a broader story of how prominent Native Americans viewed how their communities should assimilate within a predominately white society and government. The policies Curtis pursued in Congress and then as vice president, specifically those on Native issues, cloud his legacy today despite his groundbreaking achievements.

Curtis was born in 1860 to a white father from a wealthy Topeka family and a mother who was one quarter Kaw (a tribe also known as Kanza or Kansa). When he was young, Curtis’ mother died, and his father fought in the Civil War for the United States. Growing up, he spent time living with both his sets of grandparents and for eight years, he lived on the Kaw reservation. Curtis grew up speaking Kanza and French before he learned English.

Mark Brooks, site administrator for the Kansas Historical Society’s Kaw Mission site, says Curtis was known for his personal charisma.

“He had a knack for conversation,” Brooks says. “He was just a very likeable person even early on when he was just a young boy in Topeka.”

In 1873, the federal government forced the Kaw south to Indian Territory, which would later become Oklahoma. The adolescent Curtis wanted to move with his community, but, according to his Senate biography, his Kaw grandmother talked him into staying with his paternal grandparents and continuing his education.

“I took her splendid advice and the next morning as the wagons pulled out for the south, bound for Indian Territory, I mounted my pony and with my belongings in a flour sack, returned to Topeka and school,” Curtis later recalled, in a flourish of self-mythologizing. “No man or boy ever received better advice, it was the turning point in my life.”

Curtis gained some fame as a talented horse rider, known on the circuit as “Indian Charlie.” But his grandparents on both sides encouraged him to pursue a professional career, and he became a lawyer and then a politician. Contemporary accounts cite his personal charm and willingness to work hard served him well in politics. Kansas politician and newspaper editor William Allen White described him carrying books with the names of Republicans in each Kansas township, mumbling the names “like a pious worshiper out of a prayer book” so that he could greet each of them by name and ask about their family.

Despite the racist treatment of the Kaw by white Kansans - which included land theft and murder - many whites were obviously willing to vote for Curtis.

“The one thing that might have lightened the persecution of Curtis was that he was half white,” Brooks says. “He’s light-complected, he’s not dark-skinned like a lot of Kanza. His personality wins people over - unfortunately, racists can like a person of color and still be a racist, and I think that’s kind of what happened with Charlie. He was just a popular kid.”

Curtis rose within the Republican Party that dominated Kansas and became a congressman, then senator, and eventually Senate majority leader. In office, he was a loyal Republican and an advocate for women’s suffrage and child labor laws.

Throughout his time in Congress, Curtis also consistently pushed for policies that many Native Americans today say were a disaster for their nations. 

He favored the Dawes Act of 1887, passed a few years before he entered Congress, which allowed the federal government to divide tribal lands into individual plots, which eventually led to the selling of their land to the public. And in 1898, as a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs, he drafted what became known as the Curtis Act, extending the Dawes Act’s provisions to the so-called “Five Civilized Tribes” of Oklahoma.

“[The Curtis Act] enabled the dissolution of many tribal governments in Oklahoma on the path to Oklahoma becoming a state,” says Donald Grinde, a historian at the University at Buffalo who has Yamasse heritage. “And of course, that [opened up] tribal land in Oklahoma to white settlers, sooners.”

Curtis also supported Native American boarding schools, in which children were taken from their families and denied access to their own languages and cultures. Abuse was rampant. Grinde cites the schools as a factor in the population decline of Native Americans between 1870 and the 1930s.
“You tell mothers, ‘OK, you’re going to give birth to a child, but at 5 they’re going to be taken from you,’” Grinede says. “Lots of Indian women chose not to have children.”

Historian Jeanne Eder Rhodes, a retired professor at the University of Alaska and enrolled member of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, says land division under the Dawes and Curtis Acts ultimately “destroyed everything” for many Native American tribes. At the time, however, Curtis’ positions were far from unique among Native Americans. While many were dead set against land division and other policies pushed by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, others believed that tribes must assimilate into white American society and adopt norms like individual land ownership.

“At the turn of the century when he’s working there are very prominent Indian scholars and writers and professional Indian people who are all talking about these issues,” Rhodes says. “Some of them are opposed to the idea, some of them are opposed to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, some of them are working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.”

She said Curtis, like other Native American assimilationists, was concerned with issues like the education and health of Native American people, who were already suffering immensely in a pre-Dawes Act United States. And, she said, if Curtis hadn’t supported assimilation, he would never have gotten far in the era’s white-dominated politics.

“What do you do when you’re in a situation like Curtis?” Rhodes says. “He’s proud of his heritage and yet he wants to be in a position where he can do something to support Native issues. I think he tried his best and I think he regretted, in the end, being assimilationist.”

As Curtis approached his late 60s, already having achieved so much, he had one more rung to climb on the political ladder. In 1927, when Republican President Calvin Coolidge announced that he would not run for another term, he saw his chance to run for President the following year.

His plan was to run a behind-the-scenes campaign, seeking support from delegates who he hoped would see him as a compromise candidate if they couldn’t come together behind one of the front-runners. Unfortunately for him, that scenario didn’t pan out; Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover won on the first ballot.

By this time, there was already bad blood between Curtis and Hoover. The senator had bristled at Hoover’s choice in 1918 to campaign for Democratic candidates and tried to stop then-President Warren G. Harding from appointing him to his cabinet, which he did anyway in 1921. Seven years later, the Republican Party saw putting the two together on their ticket as the solution to a serious problem: Hoover was tremendously unpopular with farmers. Curtis, Kansas’ beloved veteran senator, offered the perfect choice to balance out the Commerce Secretary.

But what about his race? Grinde says Republican Party leaders and voters would have been aware of Curtis’ Kaw identity.
“They recognized that he was one-eighth Indian, but he had served the interests of white people for a long, long time,” Grinde says.

He also notes that the relationship of white Americans of the time with Native American identity was complicated. For some white people with no cultural links to Native nations, it might be a point of pride to claim that their high cheekbones marked them as descendants of an “American Indian princess.”

Despite his assimilationist politics, throughout his career Curtis honored his Kaw heritage. He had an Indian jazz band play at the 1928 inauguration and decorated the vice presidential office with Native American artifacts. And, even if many Native American people were unhappy with the land allotment plans he had championed, many Kaw were proud of him. When he was chosen for the vice presidential slot on the Republican ticket, Kaw communities in Oklahoma declared “Curtis Day,” and some of his Kaw relations attended the inauguration.

After all he had achieved to reach the vice presidency, Curtis’ time in office was anticlimactic. Hoover remained suspicious of his former rival and, despite Curtis’ enormous expertise in the workings of Congress, kept him away from policy. Washington insiders joked that the vice president could only get into the White House if he bought a ticket for the tour. The best-known event of his term involved a dispute over social protocol between Curtis’ sister, Dolly, and Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice. Dolly acted as Curtis’s hostess since his wife had died before he became vice president, and asserted that this gave her the right to be seated before the wives of congressmen and diplomats at formal dinners. Alice bristled over what she characterized as the questionable “propriety of designating any one not a wife to hold the rank of one.” And, aside from personal squabbles, the onset of the Great Depression made the White House a difficult place to be. In 1932 the Hoover-Curtis ticket lost in a landslide defeat to New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Speaker of the House John Nance Garner.

And yet, Brooks says, Curtis did not lose his taste for politics. After his defeat he chose to stay in Washington as a lawyer rather than go home to Topeka. When he died of a heart attack in 1936, he was still living in the capital.

“That had become who he was,” Brooks says.

Livia Gershon is a daily correspondent for Smithsonian. She is also a freelance journalist based in New Hampshire. She has written for JSTOR Daily, the Daily Beast, the Boston Globe, HuffPost and Vice, among others.

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Kaw people

 

The Kaw Nation (or Kanza or Kansa) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. It comes from the central Midwestern United States. It has also been called the "People of the South wind", "People of water", Kansa, Kaza, Konza, Conza, Quans, Kosa, and Kasa. Their tribal language is Kansa, classified as a Siouan language.

The toponym "Kansas" was derived from the name of this tribe. The name of Topeka, capital city of Kansas, is said to be the Kaw word Tó Ppí Kˀé meaning "a good place to grow potatoes". The Kaw are closely related to the Osage Nation, with whom members often intermarried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaw_people

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Race and Representation:

Euro-American Depictions of Native Americans and Their Cultures
https://www.slu.edu/sluma/exhibitions/virtual-exhibitions/race-and-representation.php

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3. The Senator Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy When No One Else Would 
4. To Make Native Votes Count, Janine Windy Boy Sued the Government
5. This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation… in 1921
6. ‘The Past is So Present’: How White Mobs Once Killed American Democracy
7. As a Patriot and Black Man, Colin Powell Embodied the ‘Two-Ness’ of the African American Experience
8. The $60,000 Telegram That Helped Lincoln End Slavery
   
   
   

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   Les Kaws sont un peuple amérindien du centre des États-Unis.

   Les Kaws sont de proches parents de la tribu des Osages ; on a même quelquefois affirmé qu'ils étaient des Osages.

    

   Ethnonymie
   

   La tribu nommée Kaw a aussi été appelée le Peuple du Vent (Wind People), Kaza, Kanza, Kosa et Kasa. Le nom de l'État américain du Kansas est dérivé du nom de ce peuple. Sous le régime français, cette tribu était nommée les Cansez.

    

   Histoire

   En 1898, le Curtis Act élargit les pouvoirs du gouvernement fédéral sur les affaires indiennes. En 1902, un décret du Congrès mit fin à la reconnaissance de la tribu kaw en tant qu'entité légale. Il transféra 0,6 km² au gouvernement fédéral et 6,6 km² du territoire kaw à Curtis et à ses enfants.

   La Nation Kaw d'Oklahoma reconquit sa reconnaissance. Elle est actuellement établie à Kaw City (Oklahoma).

                Le 23 avril 2000, le dernier Kaw de pure souche, William A. Mehojah, s'est éteint. 🏹 

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Money-Saving 📚Power of Your Library Card

Money-Saving Power

of Your Library Card

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By Shara Tibken * April 9, 2023

 

Your membership gets you free streaming movies, audio-books, language lessons and more.

• Rosetta Stone language classes. 
• Classic films from the Criterion Collection.
• Taylor Swift’s new album. 
• Colleen Hoover’s latest novel. 
• Your Ancestry family history. 
  

All free…with a library card.

Inflation has made everything from butter to medical care more expensive. 

At the same time, streaming video and music services have been raising prices after getting us hooked on their content. 

 

One way to lower your costs: 

Lean into your local library’s free digital perks, which go well beyond eBooks. (Libraries also offer plenty of non-digital perks, such as museum passes and ukulele loans as well as bike repairs.)

 

“Our digital presence is every bit as important as any of our physical locations,” said John Szabo, city librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. “It is just so, so, so popular.”

Freebies vary from library to library, but several things are broadly available - such as eBooks, audio-books, videos and educational apps. Check your branch’s website or app to figure out exactly what you can get. And don’t forget that other library systems, some of which have richer resources, can also give you a card.

Library Basics
Open a library card wherever you’re eligible. Most libraries require you to live in a city to get a card there. Some are more flexible. Many California public libraries, such as those in San Francisco and Los Angeles, grant cards to all state residents. New York City’s public libraries - in New York, Brooklyn and Queens - allow anyone who lives, works, owns a home or studies in the state to open a free account. (Queens lets you apply remotely.)
 

Some libraries let outsiders pay a fee for access. The Queens Public Library charges $50 a year for non-New Yorkers, while the Houston Public Library charges $40 a year for out-of-staters.

Download library eBooks - even for Kindle.  

For eBooks, download the Libby app. It is used by about 90% of public libraries in North America, said Steve Potash, chief executive of Libby parent company OverDrive. As so with physical library books, there are a limited number of licensed digital copies available from each library. This means you might have to wait weeks, then read quickly once you get the one you want.

You can read inside the Libby app or with Amazon’s Kindle app and e-readers. To send a Libby eBook to Kindle, look in the Libby Shelf tab for your borrowed book, then click “Read With…” to see the Kindle option. Sign into your Amazon account, and you’ll then see the book listed in your Kindle library on your devices.

Compare other ebook services. Libraries often use several ebook lending services, which can help you get a book quicker. The San Francisco Public Library, for instance, also offers Axis 360 and Hoopla Digital.

Axis 360, which is owned by library content and software provider Baker & Taylor, works similarly to the way Libby does - a library licenses a certain number of copies. On April 4, the Libby app showed that all SFPL’s 175 digital copies of Ms. Hoover’s novel “It Starts With Us” were checked out, resulting in a four-week wait for would-be borrowers. On Axis 360, where the SFPL has only 16 digital copies, seven were available right away.

 

Hoopla’s catalog is available to all patrons immediately, but there is a catch: It has few new bestsellers such as Ms. Hoover’s book. On Hoopla, SFPL City Librarian Michael Lambert said, “You will find more esoteric, obscure content.”

 

Get on eBook wait-lists for coming releases.  

Dying to read David Baldacci’s “Simply Lies” as soon as it hits shelves later this month? Some libraries, such as the Brooklyn Public Library, let you get on a virtual “Coming Soon” Libby wait list weeks ahead of release.

Other Libby libraries have “Skip the Line,” which lets you immediately check out select popular ebooks.

Read free comic books, magazines and newspapers.  

Hoopla, which is owned by library media distributor Midwest Tape, offers more than 25,000 comic books, including the Marvel and DC franchises. It will be adding thousands of manga titles later this year, said Hoopla founder Jeff Jankowski. The app lets you read comics page by page, or zoom in on one panel at a time.

Another common library offering, digital periodicals, can often be accessed through the PressReader and Flipster apps.

 

Virtual Entertainment

Watch free videos - including plenty of children’s shows.  

You can check out videos through Hoopla and OverDrive-owned Kanopy. They include a mix of new and old TV shows and films, including Oscar winners, PBS programming and documentaries - just no fresh blockbusters or series made by platforms such as Netflix or Hulu.

Borrowing limits can vary widely, so it can be hard to binge. In San Francisco, Kanopy views are capped at 15 a month per account. The SFPL also limits all Hoopla content - including eBooks, music and audio books - to 30 items per user each month. 

Both Kanopy and Hoopla have child-friendly modes with age-appropriate content. Kanopy Kids allows unlimited watching.

 

Listen to audiobooks and music. 

Libby, Hoopla and Axis 360 offer audio-books through their apps, and can play when offline. You can adjust the playback speed and set a sleep timer in each.

 

Hoopla also lets you check out and download full albums from most major record labels, except Sony Music, Mr. Jankowski said. It has Ms. Swift’s “Midnights” album as well as her back catalog. Other libraries, such as the DC Public Library in Washington, offer Freegal Music.

 

More Freebies

Learn a new language or get live tutoring. Language classes, both virtual and in person, are another common library offering. One program provided by SFPL is Rosetta Stone, while Queens frequently offers online and in-person classes for English, Korean and Mandarin, among others.

The San Francisco Public Library offers Brainfuse HelpNow live tutoring.

Tutoring for science, math and other subjects from kindergarten through college are available if your library offers the Brainfuse HelpNow service. The live, individual sessions are text based and take place during set hours every day.

 

Get career advice. 

Brainfuse JobNow offers adults live, chat-based career coaching. You can download templates and submit your résumé for expert feedback. Many libraries also provide free LinkedIn Learning video courses to help you develop business, technology and creative skills. Some libraries offer even more specialized job training.

 

Find legal forms, investor tips, genealogy and more.  

Libraries provide many other free services, such as providing legal forms, tax advice and individual financial coaching. Some, such as the DC Public Library, let you research your heritage using Ancestry, or provide access to investment research.

 

“These are all subscriptions that people would otherwise be paying for,” said April DeRome, electronic resources librarian at the DC Public Library.

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Appeared in the April 11, 2023, print edition as 'Humble Library Card Can Save You Cash'.

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Earth 🌍Day

End Plastic Pollution with Earth D

 April 13, 2018
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In 1969, Earth Day-founder Senator Gaylord Nelson witnessed the massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the anti-war movement of the ’60s, he felt that the increased awareness of pollution could bring the subject to the national attention. 

Earth Day 1970 was created via a rare agreement between both political parties and the disparate views through American society. The movement quickly led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency later in the year.

Earth Day went global in 1990 mobilizing 200 million people world-wide … though climate change deniers and fossil fuel industry bureaucrats continue to try and derail the movement’s efforts.

 

A Letter From 🌍Mother Earth

My Dear Children,

I am writing this letter to you, so that I can reach out to you and communicate my feelings through it.

When 🙏 created me, 🙏 also made other elements of life  such as water, land and sky  and plants, animals and the wisest and the most gifted of them all - Humans! Everything made was beautiful and perfect. 

I was blue and green with plenty of water and other resources. You people were so kind to me. I was treated with respect and was cared for.
BUT Alas! This harmony wasn’t to last forever. A day came when your mind was invaded by greed and selfishness, & then to fulfill your insatiable ego, you started the horrendous process of tormenting me.

In the name of ‘DEVELOPMENT’ and for the sake of your leisure and comfort, you forgot all about my needs and processes.
You started the wasting resources I gave you and thereby tortured me.
You people started using coal and petroleum unwisely, whose excessive usage in your machines resulted in air pollution accompanied by the hideous noise.
You built factories for your selfish purposes which polluted the air and the water.
Your chemicals made my soil infertile.
You cut trees blindly and killed your mother earth and its elements.
You barbarously dumped toxic waste in my oceans and as your ‘development’ progressed you forgot your values and the respect which you owe me.
Your population increased and you wasted all the resources.
But wait, all isn’t lost! 

If not most, some of you aren’t ignorant. There is still hope for me. There is a way to be good again.
You may have traveled the wrong road but you can always turn back to atone for the past, it is never ever too late in life. The way you polluted and choked, it all disappointed me. But some of you are working hard to protect me.
I own to you an infinite depth of gratitude for that. I expect you to spread the message and remind other people how much love I’ve embraced on you. All those people I have sheltered and helped all along must realize my importance before it is too late. 

If you call me your ‘mother’, then don’t be irresponsible and ignorant about your responsibilities towards me.

Hoping that you will take some concrete steps to nurture me. In the end, no matter what happens, I will always take care of you and try to serve you for as long as I can.

Love, now and always,

Mother Earth  

 

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