My Name is Earl

Have you ever watched the series, "My name is Earl"?

It's a fun little show, that has since stopped airing, but the premise of the series, is that Earl, a loser for all of his life, learns about Karma. He does something nice, and he wins the lottery. He then makes a list of all the people he has wronged in life, and goes about trying to correct his past misdeeds.

In one particular episode, called  "Robbed a Stoner Blind", Earl tries to make amends to a stoner he had robbed blind years ago. To his surprise, the stoner has turned his life around, and lives in commune of environmental activists.

The ex stoner educates Earl about environmental issues, and Earl takes everything he says to heart. He soon realizes how big the problem is, and that he can't possibly solve all the problems, and that other people, cities, and nations, are cancelling out all the work he does.

I wanted to include some video clips from that episode in the Lions Environmental presentation, because it's funny and would spice it up a bit, but also that it speaks well to both the magnitude of the issues, and once you realize it, how overwhelmed it can make you feel. With the moral of the story being,more or less, take care of the little things, and the big things will take care of themselves. Or, concentrate on local issues you can affect, and just do your part. 

And that's basically the message I wanted to get across. We can't do it all, but we can do something.

I actually paid $1 to Amazon to "own" the video, which allowed me to download it. But, when I tried to incorporate it into the presentation, even though they said I "owned" it, they had added digital rights management software to disallow me to do what I wanted to do with it. !! But, that's another story. I am working on it, to see if there is a way around it, because I do think it would make the presentation a little funnier, and thoughtful.

Thanks for All you do!!!!

Lion Amy Jenkins