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| A glimpse into OCEAN, Volume 2, Issue 8 . . . |
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The perfectly timed within the timelessness, the meeting of one to another, always taking and giving, receiving and nourishing
. . . creates balance for wellness.
We come around full circle, time and time again. Just as the tides come and go, day gives in to night, then day, and night
yet again. Every breath, every moment, we are meeting the fulfillment, creating yet another circle, existing as one with all.
Often, our immediate microcosm, our individual daily life, demands our attention and energies. Yet, the tide keeps turning,
and we with it, alone but not alone, aware or unaware.
Consciousness is rising, as the world's tide rises and humans massively consume, heedless of the cycle of life, that of
giving and taking, the ongoing exchange necessary for existence. With our now excessive consumption, waste and illness infiltrate.
Nature's way, the way of survival on earth, is one of productivity and health. Life is changing . . .
More than 97% of all earth's living creatures reside in our ocean; the ocean is our lifeline. She gives and gives, and
takes our waste. She and her creatures are gasping. The time has come to allow the breath of life to circulate with ease.
Open hearts, open minds, and conscious deeds lead to full breath, productivity, and wellness. Only then can we ride upon the
waves with life's flow.
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| Read this fascinating story in full and see Lisa's stunning images in Volume 2, Issue 8 of OCEAN. |
OCEANS WITHIN (read more - click here)
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| The tropical tango continues its adventures . . . in Volume 2, Issue 8 of OCEAN. |
TROPICAL TANGO IN MICRONESIA (read more - click here)
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| Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D, an outdoorsman with deep insight and caring, founded OCEAN REVOLUTION. |
www.oceanrevolution.org
| A glimpse into OCEAN, Volume 2, Issue 7 . . . |
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Where the winds blow, the sands shift, the tides rise and fall . . . our spirits soar and come to rest. Our pulse quiets to
the natural rhythm. Time slips by while all remains unchanged in the change.
Freedom is one with discipline. The free exist with perfect rule, synchronized with the highest powers, living as one
within the harmony of strife and ease, from moment to moment. Alteration of the pattern is destruction, loss of freedom. The
wild, ignorant of unruliness, know peace.
The ocean's cyclical recycling ultimately reigns over our earth and its atmosphere, determining our air, water, and food
quantity and quality. Its pattern, when undisturbed, sustains all of life on earth.
The smallest creatures of the sea hold as much power as we. Together, breath flies towards healthfulness, cleanly purity,
furthering existence. Cooperation, or integration, rather than consumption, filth, and waste, flows ultimately into fultilled
aspiration.
Thus life is life, not eventual death.
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| Nova Scotia's Grey Seal - The fisherman's worst enemy? No, they're vitally important to the fishery. |
NOVA SCOTIA'S GREY SEAL HUNT (read more - click here)
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| Riki Ott, Ph.d, tells us that the Exxon Valdez Spill is still spilling, creating waste and illness. |
EXXON VALDEZ SPILL AND BEYOND (read more - click here)
| A glimpse into OCEAN, Volume 2, Issue 6 . . . |
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. . . filled with the tsunami, surfing and a surfer, windsurfing and a soulsailor, a walk in the quiet, a sunrise by Palm
Beach Island, between here and there - the intertidal zone, whispered takings, and the 1st part of IXCHEL's ongoing story.
The waves whispered to me from a conch shell and greeted me in a crescendo at the shore.
Carolyn Prola
To stand at the edge of the sea . . . is to have knowledge of things that are as eternal as any earthly life can be.
Rachel Carson, Under the Sea Wind
The world's ocean is one of the great commons of the human race. We're all stakeholders, and what we're doing influences
it.
Dr. John Raven, Marine Biologist, University of Dundee, Scotland
With 90% of the fish fished from the seas, is the once mysteriously deep and wide, infinitely bountiful blue ocean now
a paradise lost?
Rainer Bauer
Man is at the nadir of his strength when the earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul
is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.
Edward Dahlberg
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke
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| TSUNAMI - a selection from this essay describes the phenomenon from a different view. |
TSUNAMI (read more - click here)
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| LANCE-O! - Jah, swells, and reggae music fill this Rastafarian Surfer DJ's life. |
A WAVE OF LIFE (read more - click here)
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| A glimpse into OCEAN, Volume 2, Issue 5 . . . |
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. . . speaking of hurricanes, thoughts during a hurricane, Florida's manatees
and an artist inspired by these gentle ancient giants, the weight of water, sea life sprayed and splashed and floating, Strangelove
Ocean, and "a crystalline reminder of your salt and sweetness. . . stays with me".
Power, peace. Strife and triumph. Synergy and synchroncity. Balance, energy quiet and loud. Change in the everlasting.
Life.
Sun shining on the water - whether bright and saturating or lightly perceptive, renews us, empowers us with invigorating
essences of life on earth. The sun, adored throughout history for its life sustaining ability, mixes with the ocean's water
in glorious union, feeding the life swimming, floating, undulating within, and on land. The sun and water mingle with earth
and air, nourishing the world, creating weather and geography, re-creating themselves and others.
The cycle of earth's life circles on and on, much as the revolving motion of the round earth itself, in its universal
sphere of creation. One ocean, every sea, lends itself to the vastness and within, we sense the grandness of it all. We are
not merely onlookers learning mysteries; we are part of it all, re-realizing our participation with our awe. We, too, spin
with the cycle upon this circle, with the revolution in space.
I want to run on the sand, leap weightlessly, spread my arms wide, and soar . . .
Kayla Mooney
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| HURRICANES - this selection tells of their makings, continued in OCEAN 2.5. |
HURRICANES (read more - click here)
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| FLORIDA MANATEES - gentle giants in danger. Read between the words and learn more in OCEAN 2.5. |
FLORIDA MANATEES (read more - click here)
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