Why bother to put a bit of plastic in your pocket when you visit the ocean, or any shore, and take it away? Well, I did write about it in the book. Ocean Pockets was inspired by this passage. Folks, this is not forever — Ocean Pockets is merely a suggestion, for today.
Excerpt from the Award Winning Book, TOUCH THE OCEAN: THE POWER OF OUR COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS
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“It was a crappy day and overcast. I went for a swim and there was too much Sargasso seaweed to move my arms. The sick brown seaweed was getting in my hair and under my legs and ankles. Mixed in the seaweed were plastic bottles and debris with alien bacterium and parasites that had traveled north through the Gulf Stream from the lower Caribbean Islands and South America. I stopped trying to swim. I pulled one bottle out, then another, I pulled and pulled. It was as if the ocean was puking it up. I’d never felt that feeling before when inside of her. I kept pulling and it was as if she kept puking. I took two full arm loads of the stuff across the beach and up to the thick plastic waste basket by the road. And I thought if one person could take away only one plastic bottle each time they visited the ocean it would be a different world.
It can take enormous attention and intention to not judge the ocean on such days, and rather, to see what can be done.
I’m not writing as an environmentalist. My day job is to work with the inner environment, the inner pollution. The outer pollution will never stop until we address the inner pollution. Taking care of both are random acts of consideration and a kindness to us all. It can take hundreds of years for the ocean to break down a single plastic grocery bag, seconds to pick up one plastic bottle from the beach, a moment for the direction of a life to change, for better or worse. I’m pointing to what is to our advantage to do, what is life affirming, what is life sustaining, not to another dreary course of self improvement or even of land management.
We are as wild as the ocean, as unpredictable, and in potential, as loving.
What does the ocean grudge the sky?
Will you join us on this journey? I consider each reader a guest on a visit to the story waters of this book, and I will do what I can to make your visit pleasant and comfortable, even humorous, for if nothing else, ocean, sky, even the weather can have a sense of humor! Of course, let us never forget the Source that animates all.”
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J.Nemec © September, 2007
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