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 16 Dec 2005 @ 10:36, by jazzolog. Environment, Ecology
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
---George Bernard Shaw
Searching for words, hunting for phrases, when will it end?
Esteeming knowledge and gathering information only maddens the spirit.
Just entrust yourself to your own nature, empty and illuminating---
Beyond this, I have nothing to teach.
---Bankei
Dying cricket,
His song so full
of life.
---Basho
Mary Hufford took this photograph of mountain top removal. This and others are at the Library of Congress site Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia. [link]
One of the first questions people ask when they move to a mining area of the Appalachians---or even just drive through mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio---is "What's happening over there?" They're referring to a startling bare spot on the horizon, out in the middle of nowhere, no towns around, maybe a big crane thing sticking up. What you're seeing is called strip mining or mountain top removal, and the little part of the machine inadvertently visible from the highway might be something like The Big Muskie, which was the largest mobile land machine in the world [link] . It would take a stack of books to describe the history of coal mining and its effect on the lives of the people here---and certainly other regions of the Earth too---but did you know that history continues? Mining goes on here, providing jobs and taking them away, with mountain folks wrestling the same issues they've had to deal with for 200 years. More >
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1 Dec 2005 @ 15:06, by janos. Environment, Ecology
Uma metáfora para o nosso mundo. More >
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 28 Nov 2005 @ 13:32, by jmarc. Environment, Ecology
Dial up warning! If you have less than DSL Speed for a connection, I strongly advise against clicking the below link. More >
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25 Nov 2005 @ 13:56, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
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The first snow... this morning in my little town!
How lovely to wake up to a crispy white morning ..
So unexpected..
Take a deep breath..
Cold!!
Hmmmm!!
Tiger, the pussy-cat, doesn't know what to think of it..
She carefully steps outside, then turns her head around and looks at me, looks back at this strange world again, then shakes her paws and takes a running spurt back into the house, and I laugh..
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Snowflakes...
"How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated!
I should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat."
~H.D. Thoreau
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The best snow crystals fall during cold, quiet, light snowfalls, and occasionally you can find some real stunning specimens. Each snowfall has its own character, and each brings its own kind of snowflakes..
[link]
Take a look at their beauty.
White magic..
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I wanne go outdoors now..
See ya!
*R*I*A*
Heh heh. First snow here yesterday, cat tried the "sniff test" three times, running back in, and the third time I threw her out a ways and she took off happily. For her, this is the first snow underfoot.
She's been hunting lately, leaving offerings on the stoop.
She moves to the lake with S and A soon... no traffic. We will miss her.
Cold here. The deep sleep begins...
A.
Ah snow and crystals....
we had really nice and warm stuff here
although they say its to get colder now
now ... Now is approx morning Novem 25 2005
ah it Friday aye? thank G its Friday?
ah maybe.... why? thank G for time?
why? time is all we've got ? for a while?
whatever... but back to the topic
fleeting beauty.... yes beauty is fleeting
the desire to hold on to beauty is proportional
to the appreciation of it...
and some appreciate beauty not or differently
perhaps...
although there is beauty and ugliness together
in most things hard to find beauty sometimes
and when found yes it is often fleeting
hard to find the beauty in ugliness as well
yet in togetherness is their worth
without ugly would there be beauty and without
beauty would there be ugly....
oh.... this is not poetic....
this is anaylsis or overanalysis....
this is trying to finding some underlying meaning or
understanding when all it began as was
the "appreciation" and thanks for a "drop" of beauty
from the heavens.....
why question the gift.....
ah I have lived to long perhaps....
have forgotten how to be simple.....
how to find meaning in the simple appreciation of all
that is.....
I have an interesting place.... and now ....
well now is alright....
the fridge hummminng away..... the birds having
their porridge.... hee hee
the radio and tv off.....
the sounds of silence from the street
the sounds of a city waking and the sun
streaching to the horizon.....
and wondering perhaps what this day holds
or what I choose or wish "to make" of this day....
a day that on the surface seems like so many other days
yet snow has fallen in holland and cats are playing
and cats and snow is falling in the USA and cats are
playing and its dark and cold in alberta but the place is
warm and dark....
Is there beauty here in this silence?.....
I suppose the continuum of life....
the continuum of now......
thankyou you rhea for the crystal
and you have gone out to "experience" and here I experience
it as well so thanks for sharing your beauty with me here
in this silent darkness.....
I can only imagine it though... or?
well.... teatime
sir
Blessed are We and They
That serve Love and Truth
Most of the time.
Alfie More >
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 24 Nov 2005 @ 16:50, by raypows. Environment, Ecology
If you've had an inspiring wild animal story please post it here. Our communion with nature is something to be grateful for. So goes my story.......
I had an incredible experience yesterday. I felt like St. Francis of Assisi. A Canyon Wren had found its' way into my cabin. I tried to escort it out but it kept buzzing around the top ceiling beams and such. Finally it knocked it self out, slamming into a window up on a indoor ledge by the roof. I climbed on a chair and picked it up with a t-shirt. I thought it might be dead because it wasn't moving, the inner eyelids were closed and it's beak was frozen open. It was very still. I brought it outside and started stroking it's back and blowing on it's body and down it's beak. I also wrapped my hand around it and did the sort of energy mojo I do. After about five minutes, (it seemed longer than that), it's eyelids pulled back, but it's legs, feet, body and beak were all still frozen. I didn't know if it had a broken wing or had internal damage. It never fluttered but it closed it's beak after I blew more resusitation (spl?) air into it and hopped up on its' legs, even though it's feet were still paralyzed and curled under. I walked into the yard, more onto a grassy area and bathed it in sunlight and energy work and then it perked up and started walking up my arm and back down and very cool, check this out, perched itself on my finger and started singing and chirping. I thought it would fly off once it realized, oh no I'm on a human, but, again a beautiful gift, it stayed perched on my hand for like 10-15 minutes as I walked around the yard with it and listened to it's song. I felt so blessed to have a free, wild bird be in such fearlessness of me and I in connection with it. I was in this altered zone paying rapt (not raptor {-:) attention to it and then felt a Oneness with the land and everything around me that was sublime. I walked back to my cabin with it still on my finger and when I reached it, it fluttered up to the roof and hung out awhile looking at me, singing and then flew up into the pine tree that hovers over my home. More >
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4 Nov 2005 @ 18:36, by raypows. Environment, Ecology
I've been here in San Francisco at the Green Business Conference all week. It's hosted by Coop America Amzing networking, visioning and good eats too. I'm here assisting my friends at Zhena's Gypsy Tea who are one of the sponsors and providing the tea service for the conference. This weekend we will also be at Green Fest, the public expo for green lving. My personal intention, greatly fulfilled, was to learn more about the feasibility of EcoSpirit, a Fair Trade gallery and folk craft store and educational center, meet potential investors, do market research, and create relationships within the Green Business community. There have been some really informative keynotes, such as Aveda, Patagonia, Organic Valley and break out sessions.
At events like this I always look forward to the synchronistic and serendipitous that occurs. I've met some composers and video production folks and we are speaking about offering services to the Green Community for their promotional campaigns. My role of course would be producing music and jingles (which I see like musical Haikus). I also offered my services to balance the heady information saturation with my cedar flute and have played several times during the conference.
Check out Coop America's website. They have been leaders for several decades in creating a healthier world. More >
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23 Oct 2005 @ 14:23, by kay. Environment, Ecology
23 Oct 2005 @ 14:14 by kay : Update
10.23.2005
I posted the following as an update to "Finally some truth about Chemtrails." I have a couple of posts here about chemtrails. SARS has been since linked to Chemtrails as has the 'Bird Flu'.
Please, if you are interested in the dangers of Chemtrails, check my other posts.
I will shortly be doing a series of Newscasts from Hot Springs, Arkansas on the dangers of Chemtails.
In light of the possible indictments coming forth this next week, I thought that it might be a good idea to bring this particular post to the surface once again. For those of you that are new to this web site and to this post, it is time to begin to dig in and look for the truth.
For those of you who are old friends in this space, I have been committed to helping Wayne deal with his cancer for the past 7 years. I have found it necessary to back off of many activities. After a heroic fight with the 'Big C", Wayne made his transition on April 24, 2005. Since that Time, I have left Arizona and returned to my former home in Arkansas to be near my family, especially my granddaughters. I have returned to Journalism once more having been contributing editor for Arkansas Newspapers and having once done my own programs. I am up and at it once again. I might add that it feels good.
Hold steady and don't enter into fear.
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 22 Oct 2005 @ 08:50, by jazzolog. Environment, Ecology
As for sitting in mediation, that is something which MUST include fits of ecstatic blissful laughter---brayings that will make you slump to the ground clutching your belly, and even after that passes and you struggle to your feet, will make you fall anew in further contortions of side-splitting mirth.
---Hakuin
When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.
---Saul Bellow
Please do not get caught in that place where you think you know.
---Zen saying
The Gulf Stream can be seen (red) in this thermal satellite image.
© NOAA
Last month NCN member and chemist Silvia Martinez, who lives in Spain, answered my request for links to articles she has been reading about a decrease in the flow of the Gulf Stream. I had heard dire predictions about this occuring some 30 years ago, but then it was all theoretical and frankly rather confusing. The idea is salt water can't freeze unless it's so cold the salt gets expelled in the process. For the last hundreds of years this has happened in the Greenland Sea most noticeably. The salt sinking causes warmer water from the southwest to flow in, washing the lower salt water southerly and forming a cycle we call the Gulf Stream (since it ends up and turns around in the Gulf of Mexico). More fresh water from the melting of ice age glaciers is diluting the salt water around Greenland to the extent that sinking salt isn't bringing in the same rush of warmer water. Here is the note Silvia sent me and the links. More >
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 9 Oct 2005 @ 02:34, by nemue. Environment, Ecology
Yet again Mother Earth has unleashed her fury on the people of the earth with massive earthquakes in Pakistan, Kashmir and India. All reports indicate that the death toll will be in the thousands many young children.
By all reports this most recent earthquake was the biggest to ever hit the Asian region and I fear this will not be last.
Our cousins in Guatemala are also suffering with 1400 people reported killed in mudslides. We are still recovering from the recent hurricanes in the US where once again hundreds of people perished or are no left with nothing.
The questions am now asking myself are – are these events linked? Is this part of the wake-up call for mankind and will these events get even more relentless if we don’t start changing our attitude. Are we manifesting these events ourselves as part of our ever-increasing behaviour of suspicion, hate and self-absorption? I’m OK stuff everyone else this goes for people and the earth. Or is this just part of the grand plan of self-destruction? .
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24 Sep 2005 @ 22:29, by uncleremus. Environment, Ecology
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