I am so distraught over the catastrophic disaster in the Gulf, as I imagine you are too. I can't sleep tonight. The full moon pulls me as does my sentiment for our beautiful (bleeding) planet. I try each day to do something to help heal what is occurring in the Gulf; it is so hard to keep from feeling powerless. Yet I know from experience that no matter how 'removed' from a situation I may think I be (not that I feel removed from this), I still have some responsibility and "control" over it, at least as relates to how I inform and shape my life in the light of what I am learning. At the very least I/we can be "visionary activists." I mean, I and we, together, can visualize that which we want to create, and that is a powerful first step in making it so.
I will ride my bike to work whenever it is not pouring rain-- will you if you are able? I will work to lessen my footprint every day by making conscious choices to, and not to, use petroleum products. I will support development and implementation of alternative technologies that have no part in the use of foolish fuels. I pray and imagine that the ancient memories contained in the oil that is hemorrhaging from our Mother Earth sources her and their infinite intelligence to glob up and stop her/our own bleeding. Or maybe an ancient sea turtle shell or two applies pressure where it is most helpful to control the bleeding? Humor is vital, as is action.
I am sharing here an article about a possible solution, and sharing and asking that we all use this catastrophe as a giant wake up call to stop our destructive addictive habits, and start making small and huge differences, today, tomorrow and the next day, to heal and help ourselves and our beautiful planet. Thank you for reading my first ever daily kos diary: Thank you to my mother maggiejean, for introducing me to the kos, and to my mother, Planet Earth, for her amazing generosity.
"Water is impressionable, and no molecule of it exists in isolation...the Sea is, in effect, one giant molecule with all of its parts interconnected, having both extraordinary strength and astonishing flexibility"- excerpt from Lyall Watson, 'Elephantoms'
Oil Eating Mushrooms can help solve the petroleum hemorrhage problem?