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Friday 24 april 2020
What? World Naked Gardening Day

OHIO, U.S. — Yes, it’s a thing. The only to swimming, gardening is at No one owns this event, so it does
first Saturday of May brings along a the top of the list of family-friendly not really matter whom you tell, but
rather bizarre awareness day. And activities people are most ready to tell someone. Tell your friends about
just how do you celebrate World consider doing nude. Moreover, your day of naked gardening;
Naked Gardening Day? Plant our culture needs to move toward write down what you thought
peppers and tomatoes in your a healthy sense of both body of it and email it to your local
birthday suit. Hoe dirt in the nude. acceptance and our relation to the newspaper; post your thoughts
Trim trees au naturel. Ouch! Avoid natural environment. Gardening and images onto an Internet site;
poison ivy. Itch! naked is not only a simple joy, it submit stories and photos to your
reminds us—even if only for those club newsletter.”
It’s the Sixteenth Annual World few sunkissed minutes—that we
Naked Gardening Day in 2020. can be honest with who we are as If you decide to do some naked
Over a decade of bonding in the humans and as part of this planet.” gardening to celebrate, I doubt
buff with bare buns. World Naked that your local newspaper wants
Gardening Day was founded in Now, I do accept my body— to know about it. And don’t send
2005 by Mark Story of Seattle. with bumps and bulges—wrinkles pictures—really. But you can share
and crinkles, but I’ll have to at #WNGD on twitter.
World Naked Gardening Day is pass on digging and planting Melissa Martin, Ph.D., is an author,
even featured in Wikipedia, the while naked. Too many sagging Alert. Please respect your columnist, educator, and therapist.
free encyclopedia. I guess that parts to manage—disrupts my neighbors when bending over and She lives in U.S.
makes it official. WNGD is endorsed concentration while raking. And pulling weeds. Your posterior may
by The Naturist Society, Clothes bug bites on sensitive areas would not be what they want to view hills have eyes.
Free International and American not be pleasant. And watch where along with the sunrise and their
Association for Nude Recreation. you put those pruning shears. morning coffee. However, at the I’m getting my garden ready for
Yes, the human body is a end of summer when the harvest May planting, but I’m wearing
Yes, the creative hanging loose magnificent work of art. But sweaty is abundant, overlook your prudish clothes. I’m not an outdoors buff
group has a website. Warning— armpits are not. neighbors and gift them with babe. I’m the old gal in the shabby
photos of veggie picking nude melons and cucumbers. pants, ragged tee-shirt, hat and
people at www.wngd.org. And According to the WNGD website, gloves.
the burning question we all want the group wants you to share the Please be aware of the public
to know is answered, “Why garden exposure event. “Secondly, tell nudity laws—even when gardening But seriously folks, I think we all can
naked? First of all, it’s fun! Second someone about your experience. naked on your own property. The use a good laugh about now. q

Aruba Birdlife Conservation:

Earth Day: A call for wisdom

ORANJESTAD- The NGO Aruba
Birdlife Conservation is a nature
and birdlife conservation foun-
dation. Alarming signals have
reached them on Earth Day past
Wednesday. Many are con-
cerned with the destruction of ter-
mites’ nests.

On one hand we can completely
understand that termites must be
controlled whenever they be-
come a direct threat to homes
and other buildings; they can
cause a lot of damage if not at-
tended to. But in nature, termites
are actually extremely important.
They help maintain the balance
of nature and keep ecosystems
healthy. They are important de-
composers. They play an impor-
tant role in recycling dead and
decaying trees into new soil and
their underground tunneling helps
aerate and improve the soil. These
‘green machines’ keep our forests
healthy.
‘Prikichis’ dramatically during the past ten Termites’ nests in nature are ex-
Contrary to what is stated, when And in Aruba, termites’ nests play years and destruction of termites’ tremely important and should be
we exterminate termites in nature, another vital role as well. Our Pri- nests in the wild is one of the rea- cherished and protected. Please
we are not saving nature, but just kichis need termites’ nests to be sons why their numbers have share this message to create
the opposite, we are hurting na- able to breed. The number of plummeted. awareness about this important
ture. Prikichis in Aruba has dropped topic. q