Want to make a memory?

I have been thinking about my own post awhile back about what I do every day for a living and why I do it. Today, inexplicably, listening to Bon Jovi of all things spurred a "thing" in my heart that really sums it up. Not about someone I am in love with, about someTHING I am in love with. Our Earth. I love this place we live and I'm not at all ashamed or embarrased to say it. It is spectacular! From the colors of the sky that change from minute to minute to the creatures, big and small that roam it. Take a minute to think about the vastness of the Earth and the incomprehensible variety of life here. How many different kinds of everything there is. Flowers, insects, even types of grass! Then there's the non-living stuff- rocks, minerals, soil, bodies of water, the stuff that air is made of. All of it working together to make the ball we live on habitable and interesting. There is not one day that goes by that I don't think about how lucky we are to have the gift of Earth. There is not one day that goes by that I am not aware of my natural surroundings. Can you say the same?

A memory to me is something lasting, a legacy of sorts. I spend my days working where I do because I want to make a memory on Earth. I don't want the memory I make to be one of destruction or of pollution of course, but I also don't want it to be one of neglect or taking things for granted. I want to share with people what I spend my days being amazed by and thankful for. I want my memory to be one that, when I am gone, says, "she appreciated and nurtured our Planet by sharing her (hopefully) infectious enthusiasm for it." I will never be a radical environmentalist, I will never have millions of dollars to support environmental causes, so all I can do from where I am and with who I am is to make a memory in my little part of the World.