EARTH DAY AS LA HITS RECORD TEMPS

International Entertainment News Hollywood California, OP-ED from the editor, Paul Korda



With the temperature today in LA reaching 99 degrees and shattering 95 year old records, I returned home today to find a baby sparrow unable to move from the hot concrete driveway, and it was in spasms. A parent bird flew around me with an imploring request for help. I dove into the trunk of my car to grab some pliers so that I could turn on an outside faucet with a hose, and began to water down the drive around the young life. Once his feet were drenched, the young bird began to move, splashing the water on his wings, and then ran to some shade. Meanwhile all the sparrows began to sing and fly around the steadily growing pool. By now, I too felt the heat eating into my metabolism and quickly made my way into my home.
Although it is now above ground, the analogy to the canary in the coalmine echoed the same potential for humanities vulnerability.


Yesterday when I stopped at the convenience store at my local gas station, the temperature outside was 94, and while I was making a purchase, a nun was standing outside by the night window, trying to buy gas. The clerk pointed to her to come inside to make her purchase. She didn't seem to understand what he was showing her, and he must have repeated his circular arm movements at least three times. By this point I was wondering if she was overcome by the heat. As I was leaving the store I noticed another nun standing by a large Toyota SUV, nozzle in hand, waiting to pump the gas. It was a poignant act by a person of faith, and I became concerned that organized religion may be unconcerned. As Earth Day is here, the poignancy of that scenario is a stark reminder to faith and how it should set moral precedents.


"I Wait for You" (a sample of which accompanies "Earth Day Rutribution")is about the helplessness that I often feel regarding our planets deterioration, the metabolic damage caused by "CO2", the morality of those who involve children in war, etc.


I live by the Hollywood Freeway with eight lanes of cars often paused in jams, belching harmful gases. At 99 degrees and high ozone levels, its not surprising that the baby sparrow had more than he can take from humanity. I'd guess we've all had more than we can take from humanity. Yet we are one and the same, and as Earth Day is here, what are we going to do?






It's over 90 degrees in Hollywood in April, as global warming appears to be here and Earth Day is this week. No, it's not the Sisters of Fontainebleau, riding their bikes, singing their way to Sunday school, not even Sisters of Los Angeles, driving a hybrid car, but Nuns in Hollywood, California, tanking their SUV this Sunday April 19th 2009. Spiritual Precedents that are forging morality and the way to the Dodo. This vision applied to a sample of Paul Korda singing "I Wait for You" a tribute to our Earth from his current Seeds album.