If I Only Had a Brain

Today is BLOG ACTION DAY and it's about time we raised some global environmental issues. On my way to work today I walked past a busker who was playing 'If I Only Had a Brain" from the Wizard of Oz on his trombone. If I remember back to the days when I played dorothy in my year six primary school musical the words go a little like this... "I would while away the hours conferring with the flowers, consulting with the rain. And my head I'd be scratching while my thoughts were busy hatching if I only had a brain". Well I'm just going to point out that he was a scarecrow and he had some pretty good ideas, you might say they were no brainers but I would say he was onto something. Unlike my unfortunate friend the scarecrow who didn't have a brain, we do. We can put our brains together and take a stand to inform ourselves an d those around us about the severe impact us humans can have on our environment if we don't think. I don't hear anyone these days saying they would like to confer with the flowers and I think there should be more of it! More appreciation of what mother nature provided for us. We certainly have flowers even if it takes a bus ride out of the city to discover and I mean a bus ride, you don't need that 4WD to get you across town everyday do you? What we don't have much of in this beautiful country is rain! and while I wish I could while away the hours conferring with the flowers and consulting with the rain, I think I should be consulting with you and the rest of the world on this issue. Lets conserve our biodiversity with simple things like saving water, saving energy and keeping you cat in at night...

Take note of what goes down the drain: Don't put oils, fats or harmful chemicals down the sink-they will eventually end up in the rivers, lakes or oceans and harm our water quality and wildlife. Use a strainer in the kitchen sink to collect solids from your washing up water. and another tip just in case you needed another idea... Conserve water: Install water conservation devices in the home, school and workplace. Triple A shower heads, flow restrictors on taps, and dual flush toilets can more than halve the amount of water you use, which will save you money too. (This last Paragraph info c/o the department of environment and water resources)

Blog Action Day

Tomorrow is blog action day and I will be be blogging along side thousands if not millions of others in order to raise important environmental issues. Please Join US!

So this is reality

I have had to discontinue my part time university studies. I am working full time and now I'm being asked to write more and more as a freelance journalist. I can't keep up with my studies which i wanted to do my best at, since last semester I got distinctions in all my subjects and I did so well. Now that a lung transplant has been laid out on the table like a shifty deck of cards I've decided that the less stress in my life the better. That is why I had to return to the hospital tonight to pick up a letter from my specialist explaining my reasons for taking a break from uni as to avoid the financial debt. The hospital haunts me. Every time I am sitting in that hospital I am extremely overwhelmed. As I was made to wait for my letter tonight I looked at the blank off white walls and I craved the noise that I left behind when I walked off the street into the cavernous hospital. These were my thoughts. The silence. There is no music here. No smiles in the corridors, just the echoes of footsteps. It's so quiet I can hear the blood pumping through my head. There is noone living here. This is not my life. Everything is foreign and I'm in mute. Please let in the voices from the street. I want to cry, in fact there is already water in my eyes.

As I left the hospital with my letter I was handed a big brown envelope with a pink fluoro sticker saying please open at home. When I got home I sat on my bed, the envelope in my hands with the pink sticker looking up at me. I put my favourite record on and opened it. Inside I found a brouchure said Cystic Fibrosis and Lung Transplantation.

So this is reality.