{"id":931,"date":"2016-04-22T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2016-04-22T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T20:20:31","slug":"earth-day-and-passover-its-a-two-fer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day and Passover, it’s a two-fer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

No run today, it’s Friday. I did some stuff though. I was challenged complete to the #22Kill pushup challenge. The idea is to post a video of yourself doing 22 pushups every day for 22 days to raise awareness of Veteran suicide in the US. An average of 22 veterans kill themselves every single day in the Unites States. Veteran suicide is something, and I talk about it a little in my video, that has affected my family. If we’re going to have wars, we need to take care of the people that go to fight them. If we’re not going to do that, which we don’t, then we need to stop having wars. In fact, we need to just stop having wars and this particular problem goes away.
\nSo, that is something I will be participating in. If you’d like to be nominated to do the challenge, send me a message and I will put your name up.
\nIt’s also Earth Day, every day should be Earth Day. Let’s face it, we only have one planet to live on and we have to start taking care about it, and thinking about taking care of it on more than just one day. It’s funny because someone posted about the philosophy of Gaia, that the Earth is a living organism and everything is interconnected, and I was like, well you can prove that. You can. Look at how the Earth is reacting to the damage we do, it is trying desperately to correct the mess we’re making. You take certain things out of biomes and you can destroy species, you can destroy the entire biome. This stuff is proven, the Earth is all one, and we’re not separate from it, we are part of it. We need to start acting that way, we need a sustainable life. Currently, our entire system is not based on sustainability and we’re searching for sustainability in an inherent unsustainable system, it’s a fool’s errand. The system must change if we are to survive. The good news is though, the Earth will survive, because if we get it too far out of balance, the Earth will evict us.
\nAlso, it’s the first night of Passover, so I wish all my friends who are reading this and celebrating the Holiday,\u00a0Chag Sameach. In honor of the day, I’m giving you some NoFX! Ha! This song is too funny.
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