Posts Tagged ‘trash’
It has to begin somewhere...
I’m always amazed at what people believe they can do. Or maybe they don’t have any idea of what it is they are going to create, they just do SOMETHING and then it grows and grows.
“The first Earth Day was organized from an office that smelled like hamburger grease and teemed with flies. … it was a bunch of 20-somethings working in an office over a diner.”
I guess I was 17: If the first Earth Day happened 40 years ago, that’s what the math would indicate. I vaguely remember it. Might have even been some mention of it at school. Seemed like a pretty good idea.
Turns out it was just a bunch of young people — kids really – who didn’t know they couldn’t possibly do anything that would change anything — who thought something should be done and so they did it.
I remember when our rivers were polluted, and the skies over our major cities were dark with smog, and you didn’t think too much about tossing trash out of your car as you drove down the highway.
Little by little, one person at a time — Change happens.
Weekend Runs
I see a lot of little raindrops on the forecast map for both Saturday and Sunday. Could be dicey (for me, at least!).
If I have ever done the Bluemont run (Sunday), I can’t remember it. Maybe the predicted showers will just be here and there — or later in the day.
Hey.. it could happen.
But I might need one of those bags one day...
Hoarders opened a new season Monday on A & E, and my hand is up to confess that it is “cannot look away TV” for me. My completely non-professional opinion about these people is that they can be divided into two categories — the ones who live in garbage, and the ones who form emotional attachments to things and are unable to throw anything away — thus… living in garbage. It’s people in this latter category that I find most interesting, possibly because I can relate to them on some level. One guy couldn’t throw junk mail away because it had his dead mother’s name on it, and he felt that if he threw the junk mail away, he was disrepecting his mother.
I’m certainly able to throw junk mail away, but I have to say I’m not sure how long I have to keep the papers my insurance company sends me every now and then to let me know what kind of coverage I have.
I’m pretty sure I can shred my cable bill as soon as I’ve paid it, but how long should I keep my bank statements? Yes, I know about the IRS recommendations and all that, but what I don’t know is how you organize your life so that you can then go back and FIND the bank statements from X years ago and dispose of them neatly once the timer goes off on X years having passed.
I went through the closet in my second bedroom last spring and found a box with old Christmas cards in it. Some went back almost twenty years, and since we’re being honest here, I have to admit quite a few of them were from people that I couldn’t remember any more. Somewhere between “Oh look, John and Mary sent a Christmas card!” and “Who on earth are John and Mary?” it is appropriate to trash these cards — but can you tell me exactly where that line is?
I didn’t think so.
From time to time I go through the cupboards under my bathroom sink and I don’t know how many of the Clinique bags I should reasonably keep. They’re handy little things, but do I need ten of them? Probably not. Having then decided I don’t need ten of them, how do I decide which ones stay and which ones go? What about the little shampoo and lotion bottles picked up from hotel stays? After all, they do come in handy when filling up the little plastic bags to take through airport security these days.
Trash — not trash. It’s not always a clear decision.
Weekend runs
If the weather forecast holds and there is “rain and snow” on Saturday, it will be a clear decision (for me at least) about not running.
My best bet this weekend is for Sunday – The Woods. Since it is an “out and back” run, it can be whatever length is appropriate to the mood. Let’s hope it isn’t slushy and nasty from the “rain and snow” on Saturday.
http://loudounroadrunners.org/maps/woods.pdf