One of my favorite people to visit with is my dear friend, midwife and author Nancy Wainer.  She has a fabulous house in Needham, Massachusetts that is filled with birth artwork, sculptures, a framed scrabble game with birth words, an uncircumcized penis costume, and so much more .  The last time I stayed with her, Nancy was called to a birth and I did something that I had desired to do since I first set foot in that place.  I took all of the comics and quotes off her refrigerator and cabinets, ran to the copy machine, and xeroxed nearly everything (note that I put everything back in its place, and all with fresh tape).  

One of my favorite quotes - taped on the cabinet with the mugs, if I remember correctly - seemed fitting for an Earth Day blog entry.  I don’t know who the author is, but I found a link to where you can buy a poster of it online:  http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/4426.html:

“I pledge allegiance to the Earth
and all the Life which it supports.
One Planet
in our care,
irreplaceable,
with sustenance and respect for all.”

Happy Earth Day.