Happy Earth Day - Kalimera

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Goodness, its Friday already and early this morning my ipad was pinging with a message - Happy Earth Day Lany - it said. So did FB give me a Happy Earth Day wish . . . and what in heaven's name does this all mean? Well if you google - earthday.org you will get the whole picture but to give you a little snippet of what is expected of us on this day, I add: "This Earth Day and beyond, let’s make big stuff happen. Let’s plant 7.8 billion trees for the Earth. Let’s divest from fossil fuels and make cities 100% renewable. Let’s take the momentum from the Paris Climate Summit and build on it. " I am off to get a rose and plant it in my garden which I shall call Katerina . . . maybe a rose because today is my Greek day like every Friday, and the Greeks have a certain passion about roses and Gaia, the Greek goddess of Earth, the “great mother of all,” "The early Greeks (and later, the Romans with their mythological counterparts) inexorably linked the rose to love, beauty, purity and passion. According to the poet Anacreon, seafoam dripping from the body of Aphrodite as she is born turns into white roses; thus representing her purity and innocence. Later, when she is trying to help her wounded lover, Adonis, Aphrodite sheds a few drops of blood onto a white rose and changes it to red; thus representing her desire and passion." Kalimera everyone, Kalimera Katerina!