18 January 2006

Isha - Cook

(that's her on the left) Life is magic and dreams, reality. Everything just is… Aldous Huxley said it, but of course he never sailed into the Southern Ocean. Everything here is beyond understanding, comprehension…it’s just wild, uncontrollable mighty awesome. Water… Flowing back and forth with the force of the moon Rising and setting with the heat of the planet People riding it Smiling and crying with it. I’m sure the ocean moves us too, deeply inside… Brings hidden forgotten issues to the surface… Forcing us to deal with ourselves… Existence… Life here, on earth. Earth… This blue ball playing out its existence… And then us! How and where do we leave a mark? The answer wells up from my heart...Overflows from my eyes … An awesome awesome iceberg carved by the wind and sculpted by the ocean, dropped on this earth hundreds of years ago, floating by me today… What are we going to drop on this Earth? And what are we going to leave behind?? Surely we must protect it. None of us...or not each one of us together can create anything as splendid... This is my deepest desire and I hadn’t known it ’till I was onboard the Rainbow Warrior the first time…that I will dedicate my life to this planet…To explore it, understand it, love it, protect it like it were my most precious belonging. On my last trip to Greenland, I realised the ocean is our mother...giving us life. And now in the Southern Ocean…the mother of all oceans...I feel it!! When it’s calm we are good…when it gets rough we just go along and try to keep our heads above the water!!! It’s hard, hard work…but it can’t be easy…trying to protect the oceans and its creatures… It’s a choice we all make in our hearts ’Till it fills our beings And nothing else makes sense. I’m so grateful, so humbled to be able in this lifetime to do a little bit and will strive with every day to do more... A little more So that our planet can grow And grow! Om shanti

   

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Posted by: Sam Mikus at January 19, 2006 2:59 AM

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