Message to Tony Hayward...

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Because I need something other than the horror of The Gulf

Salutation to the Dawn

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence

The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty.

For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes every yesterday
A dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn. 

~Kalidasa~

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Sorcerer's apprentice?

We have been massively intervening in the environment... Like the sorcerer's apprenctice, we are acting upon dangerously incomplete knowledge. We are, in effect, conducting a huge experiment on ourselves.
~Barry Commoner~

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Quote found over at Medusa's place

Yesterday, 8 June, was World Oceans Day

Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster

I lived in this area for 30 years and loved it.  I'm now in New Jersey and looking at returning the place that has my heart, the Bay Area of San Francisco.  

Why did I put the map of "my" soul home?  Because I think of what would happen if such a disaster like the Gulf Oil Kill struck.  If you click on the link below, you can see exactly how large of an area would be affected if this kind of preventable tragedy struck my "soul" home.

IfItWasMyHome.com - Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster

You can plug your area and the map will readjust to show you exactly how it would look in a place that you love.

My heart breaks for the entire eco system in the Gulf that is being impacted, from people to animals to plankton.  I feel so helpless and just cannot imagine what it is like for everyone and everything that is being so horrifically affected.

To the Gulf with Love

The Gulf tragedy has me so upset - tearful at times, furious at others - and it is always painful.  

I'm embedding this video about Havasu Canyon in Arizona.  It is a beautiful place and the water is clear and clean.  I offer it as a prayer for the Water and Her creatures in the Gulf and the shores that She touches.  May the purity of these waters help in cleansing those of the Gulf - may my tears help cleanse the water of the Gulf - and may my fury burn whatever is toxic in the Gulf to help cleanse the water.  

May it be so!  Ashe!