gratitude
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Scenes from Hazelwood Harvest 2008
From Marian Allen marianallen@mac.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z1gzYQ9JBE
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http://hazelwoodharvestinc.blogspot.com
"...We plan, God laughs..."
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Living in a Great Neighborhood
I can only answer for myself what I want to wake up to in the morning. Birds, for one thing. Water for me and the plants. Strength to work for life. Faith in a future worth living and sacrificing for. Enjoyment of each moment. A colorful variety of plants and animals around me. People coming and going who are as interesting in their differences and new ways of looking at things as any I have ever met.
Hey, I can see a lot of that right here, right now!
Take the people, for instance. I've been to some wild places in this country (wild in more ways than one), and I can tell you - Hazelwood folks are pretty wild. Sometimes they'll seem just as predictable as a clock, going around their daily routines and then starting back at square one the next morning. But start a conversation with somebody, and you can almost guarantee things'll go a different direction than what you expected. Why travel the world when we've got every type of person you can imagine right here?
About 7 baby foxes were found in Duck Hollow. Hazelwood has every type of mammal that lives in Pennsylvania except for bears.
I think many of us humans secretly enjoy our problems with wildlife. There's a wildness in each of us that finds release when our animal and plant neighbors don't act like they're supposed to. What would life be like if it had no surprises?
Hazelwood has people from everywhere. There's no categorizing us as to what a typical resident is like. The fact that we get along (mostly) is testament to the fact that living here is a mind and heart stretching experience. We're always negotiating rough passages. We've every problem imaginable - what could be more interesting? Geese honking, tugboats tugging, trains rumbling through, dogs barking, people hollering...This is like an adult version of Mister Roger's Neighborhood. And buddy, we're colorful. No telling what you're going to see when you look out the window. Step outside and you're bound to meet someone different than you.
Where in the world can you find a river on one side of you, mountains on the other side of the river, high-tech research going on right near, universities up the hill working to apply what they've learned to help create the next step in human progress, rabbits and woodchucks (Don't diss them by calling them groundhogs) on the main drag, and deer poking their noses in people's windows? I say we get some gratitude.
Yes, it's scary living with your eyes wide open in a dangerous world. I wake up from nightmares of what will happen if a truck or train has an accident and leaks some hazardous chemical in this densely populated part of the world. Will we become the heroes we'd all like to think ourselves in the inevitable environmental crises that are coming our way? But there's a fierce power in being unafraid to love, and it'll take us through to the better next that we can't predict.
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Algae photobioreactor at Hazelwood coal powerplant N.S.W.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EpfkkEAAw&feature=related
"...fast-growing algae yields at least 80 times more biofuel than canola crops...
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Scenes from Hazelwood Harvest 2008
From Marian Allen marianallen@mac.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z1gzYQ9JBE
======
http://hazelwoodharvestinc.blogspot.com
"...We plan, God laughs..."
======
Living in a Great Neighborhood
I can only answer for myself what I want to wake up to in the morning. Birds, for one thing. Water for me and the plants. Strength to work for life. Faith in a future worth living and sacrificing for. Enjoyment of each moment. A colorful variety of plants and animals around me. People coming and going who are as interesting in their differences and new ways of looking at things as any I have ever met.
Hey, I can see a lot of that right here, right now!
Take the people, for instance. I've been to some wild places in this country (wild in more ways than one), and I can tell you - Hazelwood folks are pretty wild. Sometimes they'll seem just as predictable as a clock, going around their daily routines and then starting back at square one the next morning. But start a conversation with somebody, and you can almost guarantee things'll go a different direction than what you expected. Why travel the world when we've got every type of person you can imagine right here?
About 7 baby foxes were found in Duck Hollow. Hazelwood has every type of mammal that lives in Pennsylvania except for bears.
I think many of us humans secretly enjoy our problems with wildlife. There's a wildness in each of us that finds release when our animal and plant neighbors don't act like they're supposed to. What would life be like if it had no surprises?
Hazelwood has people from everywhere. There's no categorizing us as to what a typical resident is like. The fact that we get along (mostly) is testament to the fact that living here is a mind and heart stretching experience. We're always negotiating rough passages. We've every problem imaginable - what could be more interesting? Geese honking, tugboats tugging, trains rumbling through, dogs barking, people hollering...This is like an adult version of Mister Roger's Neighborhood. And buddy, we're colorful. No telling what you're going to see when you look out the window. Step outside and you're bound to meet someone different than you.
Where in the world can you find a river on one side of you, mountains on the other side of the river, high-tech research going on right near, universities up the hill working to apply what they've learned to help create the next step in human progress, rabbits and woodchucks (Don't diss them by calling them groundhogs) on the main drag, and deer poking their noses in people's windows? I say we get some gratitude.
Yes, it's scary living with your eyes wide open in a dangerous world. I wake up from nightmares of what will happen if a truck or train has an accident and leaks some hazardous chemical in this densely populated part of the world. Will we become the heroes we'd all like to think ourselves in the inevitable environmental crises that are coming our way? But there's a fierce power in being unafraid to love, and it'll take us through to the better next that we can't predict.
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Algae photobioreactor at Hazelwood coal powerplant N.S.W.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EpfkkEAAw&feature=related
"...fast-growing algae yields at least 80 times more biofuel than canola crops...
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