I read our professor Dr. Becker's blog post #3 and was moved by her perseverance to make it here in Hawaii with the rats, centipedes and boars. The Finger Lakes workshop is pretty cool looking. I went to the website and looked at the stuff and watched some of the videos and they looked super eco neat for kids. I am a parent and wish I could take my kids to this workshop. The fee is only 30 bucks which is so cheap and looks like there's tons of stuff to do. I was shocked and impressed that it would be an event not for only the wealthy but everyone because of supporters absorbing costs to hold the event. I was thinking about how all this relates to my own story of life and would like to share with whoever is reading this my eco story.
I was a typical American kid growing up in a suburban town and played sports and actively involved with activities throughout my childhood. I became a senior in High school and was thinking about trying out for college baseball teams around the country and maybe even a track team in Europe if the baseball thing did not work out. I had applied at Pepperdine, Ohio state, Indianan State for baseball. I then had been in a fight with a childhood friend and became seriously injured from him assaulting me and then a car passing by, running over me during the fight! It was an unfortunate accident but sparked a change in me for the better. I had to be disabled and wheelchair bound for some time. The process was about a 2 year ordeal and during that I had a lot of time to think about myself and the world around me. I became more interested in life and learning. This road brought me to Hawaii on a scholarship from the Chickasaw Nation and has helped me to see the world with a better informed view about it in certain light. After being in school for some time now I did not need the eco class but, had been drawn to want to learn more about this topic and related studies. I have learned enough to know now that this is our only permanent solution for the global biota. I have always loved nature and have always respected life from when I was a boy scout and cub scout on campouts to being involved in restoration groups in college currently. The more I learned about nature, through Hawaiian Biology, Ethno Botany, Marine Science, Hawaiian Studies classes, the more I was being driven towards eco thinking to preserve, prevent and change our systems to save our animals, plants, habitats and diversity of all life. I would like to never experience species extinction for the rest of my life and everyone that follows after me. I have felt from my experience that life is very short and we should cherish every moment we have been given to really examine our true goals in life and where we want to get to for tomorrow. I will spend my life I know in my soul trying to fix our broken planet for the sake of life itself and all of us having the right to survive. I hope we could all change really quickly and safely to preserve what we still have left from our own ignorance. Please if you have read this respect life, make changes, and go green, do not just sya it or do it for a trend or fad but because it's the only way we will save anything if we have not taken it too far already.
Aloha for Readin Jon M Ellison
