The dawning of a new age

In our kind of climate, the Christmas trees that we buy are made of plastic. These trees do not last many years and usually after a few years, parts of them give way and they have to be thrown away.

Some departmental stores import real pine trees for the Christmas season. They cost a lot more to buy and do not last either. What a waste of a natural resource if these trees are cut from the forests every year just so that they can hold up some glittering ornaments for a few weeks at the end of every year at home and in commercial places like shopping malls and office buildings. When the Christmas holidays were over I was surprised to come across this tree at the entrance to the Newton Hawker Centre.

From a distance I could not tell what it was made of.

As I got closer I saw that the Christmas tree was made from recycled bottles and of all things - LP records. One would have thought them to be too valuable to be used in this manner.

This tree must have been a sight to behold at night for there were wires criss-crossing it with small light bulbs attached.

Just the sight of these records bring back memories of the days when music that I enjoyed came from these huge vinyl records.records. The particular LP that I happened to look at carried the title 'The Age of Aquarius'.

Here's what I remember of the first verse of that song:

When the moon is in the seventh house

and Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace is with the planets

and love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (2X)

Aquarius (2x)

I hope that when people learn to love the earth a little bit more by not hurting it with their rubbish, we will be steered away from self-destruction.