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This week’s Sundae whets the appetite with some musical improvisation in a busy food court, a thought-provoking theory on modern life, and yours truly vows to switch her TP of choice.

Have you made the switcheroo?
Wipe It Out is an independent campaign that’s on a mission to wipe out the use of non-recycled toilet paper in Australia by 2014. Its aim is for Australia to stop turning its precious virgin rainforests or plantation forests into toilet paper for our backsides.

I am among the 95% of Australians who do not use recycled toilet paper. So, today, please bare witness to my change of heart. Why? Because every time a tonne of recycled toilet paper is made versus non-recycled, 31,000 litres of water and 400kg of greenhouse gases are saved.

I, SuperForester April, hereby pledge to wipe my butt with recycled toilet paper only. Next time I buy toilet paper for my household, I’ll put the onus on myself to choose a recycled type of toilet paper. (Feel free to join me. It feels good.)

What the world needs now
After discovering Improv Everywhere this week, I’ve decided that musical improvisation is what is going to save the world. Well, one of the key things at least. Watch I Love Lunch! The Musical below, featuring individuals breaking out into song in the Trump Tower atrium and tell me I am wrong.

The paradox of our time

This piece has often been attributed to the late American comedian George Carlin (pictured above). But he denied this on his website. Another website claims it was penned by Dr Bob Moorehead, a former pastor of Seattle’s Overlake Christian Church. Whoever the author, it raises a lot of interesting points about us. What do you think?

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbour. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete …

Yours,
April