Newly Listed and the Stirring Speech of L. DiCaprio

Today we listed the house with Elders and a woman who seems keen and capable.  One thing she said made me think perhaps she'll be the one that finally moves it.  She said the other realtors should have been keeping in touch.  They haven't.  So we'll see.   Three of them are coming out on Wednesday to have a look so the round of cleaning begins anew although frankly, the place is always neat and tidy enough and it's more a sop to my need to feel as though I merit a sale more than a need to make it clean that gets me to hit the mop and sponge and rake and broom. 

The other thing of note.  Watched the last half of the Oscars.  Leonardo DiCaprio gave the best acceptance speech for Best Actor.  After graciously thanked all involved in the making of the movie and the making of him as an actor, including his parents, he concluded with this:

And lastly I just want to say this: Making ‘The Revenant’ was about man's relationship to the natural world. A world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people out there who would be most affected by this. For our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much.

 The audience gave him a standing ovation.  A large Indian in the audience, who obviously was in The Revenant, had the biggest widest whitest grin I've ever seen.   I cried.

Millions, perhaps billions, of people watch the Oscars.  Surely this message can no longer be ignored.  A groundswell of feeling will eventually overwhelm and render inert those who harm our planet on such a grand scale with impunity.