Here to Clear the Air...do your Mind?

Grand Global Gestures: On 4-22-23 on behalf of the environment, at least once per year on what's become known throughout the world as "Earth Day" where we all come together (that would be a problem, if it actually happened, so it's in the 'spirit' of doing so that we all do, collectively) one day of the year and do many noble things to "clean up this mess!" as our folks used to order each Saturday..."before going out to play..." Such gestures planet Earth hopes you'll sustain in order to ensure, for future generations, what's being referred to these days as a "sustainable" future. What used to be called, as we were trying to max out our play time, as we grew more aware of the world around us, simply as concerns with "pollution" of various kinds, principally in attempts to rid the air and our waterways of "toxic" stuff, which came to be a source of great preoccupation of more recent gens, with regard to what goes in and out not only bodies of waters, but their selfies...which inevitably led to the cottage industry of "de-toxing", along with, in partnership with "cleansing" products -- some of which might even be enlisted to assist one in diving deep to clean out pollutants, even before the pandemic made "deep cleaning" necessary, then even popular, as in a whole industry of cleaning products and companies to bring them to you...that had been preceded by many generations of collective "elbow grease! -- "There's just no substitute, no short-cuts for hard work, vigorously applied physical labor or effort...if you know what's good for you!" 

"Well, that's All Well and Good": Cleaning the air and water of "foreign" substances...the ones that could contaminate the environment, as well as our bodies, if consumed at certain rates, concentrations beyond what the EPA, ever since its inception in 1970, deemed "healthy"...before which our parents, grandparents, and so on down the line had been on the lookout locally at least. But, even after the national watchdogs came on the scene, to aid US in our collective clean-up efforts, not just those we come to think about each year two days after recovering from 4/22, who's giving even the slightest thought about our MINDS?! That is, don't you think we need at least a half-day, a few hours during which we put "trash talk" on pause...delete our "anti-social media" and otherwise do a "data dump" -- especially as recent accumulated evidence regarding the vast amounts of accumulated data that has been recently stored in the "clouds" could easily, if not purged from time-to-time, result in a gradual rise in global temperatures, an unseen, new "insidious" threat, one we hardly give any attention, let alone what our great, great grandparents passed down as the most basic of clean-up methods, time-tested....even before "screens"...."Turn off that garbage and fill your heads with something healthier...your mind's gonna' turn to rubbish...what a waste!"

"What on Earth?!" A statement of surprise, about something you've just been shown, told. Well, it should come of no surprise to you, if you're one the high-minded folks who are regulars here, that "Clorox" as a company arrived on the US market early last century, closely followed by the first bottle of liquid bleach which spilled throughout the land, soon to be accompanied by their mascot, "Butch the bottle" And, many cleaning cycles later, by the hand-held form "Wipes", which actually started arriving at store shelves more than two decades prior to the pandemic wiping the supply out, an over-night sensation. And one signaling a supply chain problem, one which called for lots of brain storming, problem solving, for the lack of supply, overdemand, consumption, and all the messes that still need cleaning up...

"I've got half a mind to..." An idiom passed down, along with the other cleaning agents...one that used to mean "an indication or intention to do something, especially a result of an unpleasant experience" --  what I offer as the t-shirt meme honoring the half day each year (you choose) set aside for mind cleansing...worth a few hours each year, don't you think? Because, as our elders and the ones that came before them, the collective wisdom of billions and billions..."A mind's a terrible thing to let go to waste" Well, that's sort of the way I recall it and, since this is my blog, the way I am deciding to re-tell it, recycle it, on your behalf. 👍👎?