Sarah McLachlan, one of my favorite artists, has a heartbreaking video at
www.worldonfire.ca. The lyrics are below. I love the line "The more we take the less we become".
World on Fire Lyrics
Hearts are worn
In these dark ages
You're not alone,
In these stories' pages
The light has fallen
Amongst the living and the dying
And I'll try to hold it in
Yeah I'll try to hold it in
The world is on fire
It's more than I can handle
I'll tap into the water
Try and bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table
Bring what I am able ...
I watch the heavens
But I find no calling
Something I can do to change what's coming
Stay close to me
While the sky is falling
I don't wanna be left alone,
Don't want to be alone...
The world is on fire
It's more than I can handle
I'll tap into the water
Try and bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table
Bring what I am able ...
Hearts break ... hearts mend ... love still hurts
visions clash ... planes crash
Still there's talk of saving souls
Still the cold is closing in on us
We part the veil on our killer sun
Stray from the straight line
On this short run ...
The more we take the less we become
The fortune of one man means less for some
The world is on fire
It's more than I can handle
I'll tap into the water
Try and bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table
Bring what I am able ...
The world is on fire
It's more than I can handle
I'll tap into the water
Try and bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table
Bring what I am able ...
Believe it or not, today is World Environment Day (WED), a day established by the United Nations in 1972. According the UN's web site:Principal vehicles? Worldwide awareness? Tell that to the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The WallStreet Journal, NPR and the BBC. Not one of these online news sites has even a small blurb on World Environment Day, at least not on the home page. (It's pretty clear that the story of the proposed marriage amendment that would not allow same-sex couples to wed bumped the other "WED" story to an inside page.) A mention was no where to be found on the home pages of both Grist and e Magazines either.I started to question myself and went back to Google and searched again for World Environment Day. Yep. It's today.
POSTED BY Wendy Richardson co-author of Nerdy Books AT 6:12 PM 2 comments