Jun 03 2010
meh. I have much to say but my meatworld self and my family have other ideas and demands on my time today. I pretty much said it, most of it, yesterday with my ironically titled essay No Strings Attached. So I’ll just take a little time to embellish this one little thing from there. A postscript, if you will.
This is all such soul sapping stuff. It can drown you but there are ways… in the ocean, you dive under the wave…. under, then wait, swim out some, then surface. Breathe.
May 20 2010
Can we, as a nation, make the transformational conversion to New Clean Renewable Energy, with a goal of eliminating those energy monsters sources that foul our oceans, gulfs, lakes, waters, mountains, valleys, and planet? Can we as communal inhabitants of this great earth, the only one we have, choose to nurture and honor her in our global decisions to milk her energies?
Yes. We Can. But only if our leaders will.
May 13 2010
NOTE to admins/editors: I could probably use a little help with the pics formatting! 6PM: thanks ek! 😉
OTW = Off The Wall, is my Thursday ongoing series
Davidseth’s essay last night made me cry: “But BP’s not pouring oil directly on me, or my family, or my house, or my land.” (excellent essay, & he says it much better than me… my sentiments)
Yes, yes they are. They are pouring oil on us… My house, my beach, my land, my Gulf, my ocean, my planet. And yours too.
“We came to the beach just in case we can’t come next week or in the next 20 years…”
{Dad, family of 4}
The winds Sunday gusted to 25 mph, blowing from the Gulf toward the coast, but coming a bit from the east. That helped keep the huge oil slick from coming closer to Florida.
“Currently, there are no impacts to the state projected through Wednesday,” said Florida Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Amy Graham. “Florida continues to make preparations to safeguard the state’s shoreline.”
“We wait for summer so we can go to the beach,” {16 year old boy, Pensacola Florida}.
“This could ruin our summer.”
Ya think…?
Apr 29 2010
On? or Off? the Island. Who decides?
“According to an 1850 report by the U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Survey, San Nicolas Island “is slightly the farthest from the mainland, and is the driest and most sterile. It is 890 feet high, with bold, precipitous sides of coarse sandstone on 3 sides … Two thirds of the surface of the island is covered with sand and the remainder with coarse grass.” The report also said it was nicknamed “Otter Island” due to the large numbers of sea otters on its beaches, and the “Indian name was said to be Ghaiashat.” An 1899 L.A. Times article says San Nicolas Island is a flat island, “almost as bare as a floor,” with 500 foot jagged rock canyons leading down to its beaches, which are covered with sea lions and seals. The article goes on to say the island is approximately 8 miles long, and 4 miles wide, it sits in the middle of the Pacific Ocean west of Los Angeles, CA, and the island is known for its heavy winds, “surrounded on all sides by ocean waves, sometimes 30 feet high,” so powerful they shake the ground. source
It was her island. Her home. This woman.
She had a name.
A name given to her in youth by her family, a mother and father who loved her, surely.
It was not “Juana Maria”. They decided to call her that … because they couldn’t pronounce hers. They. They decided.
Apr 22 2010
Earth Day… see also… Robyn, AndyS, Jamess and Eddie C. (so far!)
Apr 15 2010
“Off The Wall” (OTW) is my ongoing Thursday Series about life, cultures, and random stuff that preoccupies my mind. (NOTE: today is Thursday on Wednesday… I’ll be out of pocket for much of tomorrow morning, so publishing early, as per the muse.)
meta, mega meta, and nina, emo’s emu’s and empaths…
I know, I know. Enough with the meta. Enough with blathering on about That Other Place and all that. I’m not actually going to get deep into the GOS meta.mud here. At least, not right outta the gate. lol. Let’s have a little Nina:
What I have churning in my head, in response to all the meta, is more…. a stepping back. A looking inward. And an effort to try to look at The Big Picture. Keep perspective. Gain perspectives.
There are struggles and then there are struggles.