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I have learned that there are thousands of ways of looking at things.
I started out in about third grade falling in love with the living things I could see under the microscope - green leaves you could see right through, paramecium swirling around in water, spirogyra algae single-cells (microbes) green with chlorophyll inside each cell in a spiral, each cell linked with another cell in chains creating what without a microscope we call pond scum,... I was looking at all this through a microscope my parents had bought for me. Some microbes move by a wee like whip which is called a cilia which moves them around. A much larger (but still too small to be almost impossible to see with either a magnifying glass or the naked eye) many-celled animal are rotifers. These guys eat by using their cilia to draw water and food towards them.
Now, 50 or so years later, I'm still learning. I've learned that, if you take a poll of say what's going to happen in the United States in the next ten years, you'll get hundreds of millions of ansers, none of which will be entirely correct. The future will always none of the above (I think) .
One possible future I hope for for Hazelwood is that the area where the old J&L mill used to be include: one or more greenhouses of various sizes and designs; a flowing water functional work of art which takes rain from the hillside and feeds a fountain sprayer which waters a food forest where people can picnic, have lunch, grow and eat berries, pick herbs, and fruit from trees, look at flowers (wild and cultivated, local and from other lands); an educational/entertainment marina on the Mon with the history (e.g. of what lived and what still lives in the river - oysters, clams, crayfish, many types of fish [some huge]),...a celebration of the past such as that Mark Twain piloted a boat up here from the Mississippi...a celebration of the past and possible future of the Pittsburgh area as far as inventions, applied science, and...
Pittsburgh participated in the birth of the nuclear industry. John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) planted and sold trees here. The beginning of radio. The beginning of educational tv. The great humanitarian inventor Nikola Tesla. The great preacher Kathryn Kuhlman. My mother. My father.
Nature heals, such as from the terrible burden of pollution that this city has suffered. Let's let it. From those living things too small to be able to be seen (such as the fungi that, unnoticed, have such an important role in our soils' health and so our own health)...to large wildlife such as the bald eagle which, by being part (along with us humans) of the web of life, the community of life must be protected and nurtured.
I have learned that there are thousands of ways of looking at things.
I started out in about third grade falling in love with the living things I could see under the microscope - green leaves you could see right through, paramecium swirling around in water, spirogyra algae single-cells (microbes) green with chlorophyll inside each cell in a spiral, each cell linked with another cell in chains creating what without a microscope we call pond scum,... I was looking at all this through a microscope my parents had bought for me. Some microbes move by a wee like whip which is called a cilia which moves them around. A much larger (but still too small to be almost impossible to see with either a magnifying glass or the naked eye) many-celled animal are rotifers. These guys eat by using their cilia to draw water and food towards them.
Now, 50 or so years later, I'm still learning. I've learned that, if you take a poll of say what's going to happen in the United States in the next ten years, you'll get hundreds of millions of ansers, none of which will be entirely correct. The future will always none of the above (I think) .
One possible future I hope for for Hazelwood is that the area where the old J&L mill used to be include: one or more greenhouses of various sizes and designs; a flowing water functional work of art which takes rain from the hillside and feeds a fountain sprayer which waters a food forest where people can picnic, have lunch, grow and eat berries, pick herbs, and fruit from trees, look at flowers (wild and cultivated, local and from other lands); an educational/entertainment marina on the Mon with the history (e.g. of what lived and what still lives in the river - oysters, clams, crayfish, many types of fish [some huge]),...a celebration of the past such as that Mark Twain piloted a boat up here from the Mississippi...a celebration of the past and possible future of the Pittsburgh area as far as inventions, applied science, and...
Pittsburgh participated in the birth of the nuclear industry. John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) planted and sold trees here. The beginning of radio. The beginning of educational tv. The great humanitarian inventor Nikola Tesla. The great preacher Kathryn Kuhlman. My mother. My father.
Nature heals, such as from the terrible burden of pollution that this city has suffered. Let's let it. From those living things too small to be able to be seen (such as the fungi that, unnoticed, have such an important role in our soils' health and so our own health)...to large wildlife such as the bald eagle which, by being part (along with us humans) of the web of life, the community of life must be protected and nurtured.
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