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December 2002
By Gene B. Herman
Why did I become a green...
Better yet...how did I become a green!
Was it acid rain killing lakes in the Adirondacks when I was living
in upstate New York.
Was it my friend Beverly of Altamont, NY who introduced me to birds
and birding on her back road farm, pointing out a pair of red tail
hawks, Blondie and Dag, as she named them, mates for life, nesting
in a tree on her land and fireflies filling the low lands of her
yard one dark summer night... twinkling lights...Christmas in July.
Was it my friend Louise of Nantucket getting me to help her, one
hot summer day dig dirt in preparation for an organic garden.
It was watching in awe a squadron of barn swallows diving and swarming
after a kestrel to get it to release a stolen baby swallow...and
a cardinal screeching and squabbling against a blue jay chasing
it away from itıs nest in a rambling bush or stopping to listen
for ten fascinated minutes to a mockingbird rapping off itıs rapacious
repertoire. It was a friend giving me a book written by John Muir
about Yosemite prior to my move west to California.
It was my becoming very aware of the absolute necessity of clean
air, clean water, clean soil.
It was my protesting against Diablo Canyon Nuclear Facility just
after my arrival in California in 1981.
It was the very loud banging outside my cabin one fall morning,
upon investigation finding a pilliated woodpecker pounding away
against a fallen tree stump. It was my first sighting of a great
blue heron leaping to flight with giant wings, skimming along a
creek bed.
It was the assassination of JFK, MLK, RFK, the insaneness of the
Viet Nam war, the poetry of Ho Chi Mihn, a true patriot of revolution.
the stupidity of the Peripheral Canal It was the rape of tranquil
Nantucket by greedy developers.
It was Che...and Lamumba...Allende...and Mandela, Wayne Morse and
Paul Wellstone the revolution in Nicaragua Fidelito and the justice
for the Palestinians.
Itıs nuclear free zones and saving the ozone.
I grow organic crops...right here in Bezerkeley I compost I recycle
I love this way of living I became a green... out of necessity the
democrats sold out to corporations lobbyists to greed and inept/failed
leadership.
We do have a (pro) choice
Ralph Nader
dolphins...sequoias...monarch butterflies...redwoods
with peace and justice for all
go green...be scene.
Mr. Green Gene
AKA Gene Herman
11/6/02
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