Climate and humanity

Hot, cold, wet, or dry
mankind affect the climate
Earth is one country

Today is Blog Action Day

Today is blog action day and I forgot to sign up for it. I signed up for it last year, I don't know why I forgot this year. I don't think I have any more on my plate then in 2007 or 2009, actually I suspect I may have less on my plate.

Signed up or not, I'm going to blog about the climate today. I haven't decided what I'm going to say yet, but I'm going to blog about the climate. In fact, I think I'll blog about the climate in all of my blogs. Since blog action day is October 15, I think I'll put a reminder in my calendar for 2010 to sign up for it in September of 2010.

Writing is blogging

Writing is blogging
putting thoughts in cyberspace
sentence creation

On Blog Action Day
I will create sentences,
paragraphs poems

Writers and Bloggers Mark October 15 on your calendars

October 15 is Blog Action Day, so mark it on your calendars. I've noted the day on my planning calendar. I don't know what the theme is yet, so I don't know what approach I'm going to take. I do know that I will make at least one entry on that day in this blog. This year, I'm considering making some type of entry in each of my blogs on Blog Action Day.

We are the Working Poor

We are the working poor,
we rise in the cold darkness before dawn
to begin another day
of laboring for survival.

Another day
of working two, three or more jobs
just to pay
for yesterday's
food, shelter or clothing.

We are the working poor,
we pray that our transportation remains reliable,
or the bus isn't too early,
or too late,
or doesn't miss our stop
so that after our first job
we're on time for the second,
then the third...

We are the working poor,
laboring for survival.

Blog Action Day is Coming in October

I just received the e-mail today about Blog Action Day 2008, the e-mail actually came yesterday, but I just download the messages in that box today. The theme this year is poverty and on October 15, 2008 thousands of bloggers across the world will write about this subject. Any bloggers reading this join us on October 15 and write about poverty.

I am not sure what approach I will take on this subject. Poverty is something I have some personal experience with, so I may write about it from that perspective. However, this is a mixed genre writing blog therefore I could as easily write a poem or a short story. I do not want to pin my approach down yet because, personal experience tells me I will probably change my approach when the day come.

I can decided on an approach to a subject and then when the time comes to write about it I find myself taking a completely different approach. That is because personal and world events affect my approach to any theme or subject. I must admit though, writing an entry on the way poverty effect an individual and a family is most attractive. I have a little time to do some research on the subject and find a few website to include in the entry.

In the meant time, please check out Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty and join us in blogging about this subject, not only blog about it, but check out what other bloggers are writing about poverty.

Blog Action Day

October 15, 2008

Over 1,292 blogs will participate and more then 2,703,934 people will read about poverty.