Touching Our Mother Earth Each Day
16
Jun
2023
In 1969, as a child I still remember the stench of the oil spill on the beaches in Santa Barbara that marked the start of Earth Day.
The next year, people gathered downtown for a teach-in on Anapamu Street, named after the Chumash word for where the hill gently rises. They met on the US Senate proposed date of April 22nd to celebrate the Earth.
This year, early in the morning of Earth Day, our Florida Keys Satellite Sangha leader, Dr. Ellen Booth Church, began our practice together by Zoom reminding us that, “Everyday is Earth Day.”
