Last night we had a gathering of some of the people in my spiritual center around this Spring Altar. I plan to use this again tonight in my celebration of a global Earth Hour.

Earth Hour is easy. To participate, at 8:30 PM local time (mine is East Coast US, which I think is GMT-5), you turn off all artificial lights. Or, at least, as many as possible. You keep them off for an hour. You also should minimize other uses of electricity–again, as much as is possible for your situation. The suggestion is also to spend that time doing something to benefit Mother Earth.

So tonight at 8:31, I will be sitting and working by candlelight. And/or I have a fireplace, so I might light a fire. I will meditate and pray for the well-being of our planet and all its inhabitants: two-leggeds, four-leggeds, winged, finned, leafed, fungal, and all other living things. I don’t have a great track record of growing things, but I think I will try to plant some local seedlings of small plants that are good for bees and/or butterflies. And we will see what other things I can come up with to demonstrate my gratitude for this wonderful world that I, at least, tend to take for granted.

For more information on Earth Hour, which is sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, visit: https://www.earthhour.org

Hope you will join the millions of us who will be participating this year!