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Happy Place

The ocean. The catalyst. The source.
My happy place. My second home.

As soon as I learnt more about what is under the surface, I knew something had to change.

Plogging

“The secret of change is not to focus all of your energy on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Socrates

#777challenge a social media movement by L’Escargot Anglais aka Edmund Platt : 7 days, 7 items, 7 posts – I’m on day 3, or is it 4?

I’ve lost count because I do the action every single time I go outdoors, sometimes several times a day. If I see it and I don’t already have my hands full, then I’m sure as heck gunna pick it up.

We know the surface of the moon better than we do the ocean floor.

Spending more time discovering our planet’s oceans is essential if we are to understand anything. After all, the majority of the air we breathe and the climate we live in is regulated in large parts by the ocean. Finding an appreciation for something so vital to our lives is important, for our own wellbeing, but also for that of the planet.

We Are Biodiversity: Quotes and Photos.

“Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.”
Abraham-Hicks @abrahamhickspublications

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie

“Biodiversity concerns us first and foremost because we are biodiversity, us and everything that lives on earth.”
Hubert Reeves
_{Unofficially translated by Natacha Neveu @thesortinghouse from ‘Grain’ the book from @la_releve_et_la_peste : “La biodiversité nous concerne au premier chef, car la biodiversité c’est nous, nous et tout ce qui vit sur terre.”}

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”
Anna Sewell

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Vicki Corona

“The enormous potential of youth can be unleashed for the wellbeing of the world, and it would have a tremendous impact, only if we make our youth inspired, inclusive and insightful.”
Sadhguru

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.”
Origin unknown – falsely attributed to Buddha apparently.

One Piece of Rubbish – a poem

Cigarette butts are one of the leading causes of ocean (and planet) pollution – they are made from plastic fibres that do not decompose but rather draw further pollutants to it over time. They are easily mistaken for food by animals who have been found with heaps of our synthetic materials in their stomachs on autopsy and if that wasn’t bad enough, they look hideous littered everywhere, they won’t ever disappear and just one butt can pollute 500 litres of our clean water.

Every time I go out, I pick up at least #1pieceofrubbish , sometimes more, but never less. It feels quite good, I confess.

I don’t even have to go out of my way, because there is rubbish there every day. Whenever, all the time. Wherever I go, I find.

Today, wherever you are; whether you’re going from house to car, bus to work, or work to bar – whoever you are, just pick one piece of rubbish up this time and humanity might end up being just fine.

Without actually even going out of your way, it’s possible to claim this rubbish today, make it your piece to dispose of in a much better, a much nicer way.

Small Expressions of Gratitude

^{Updated 13 September 2022 – Original post 6 December 2019}

Impromptu beach clean – removing what isn’t supposed to be there.

Why do I sometimes pick up rubbish that isn’t mine?

It is an ode to being. A small expression of gratitude.

To the planet, for the planet.

For and to the men, women and animals who have sacrificed so that I may have the privilege.

Privilege to choose.

Privilege to feel.

Privilege to find.

Privilege to do things for nothing.

Nature Therapy

^{Updated 6 October 2022 – Original 19 November 2019}

Memories of a place not yet destroyed by mankind 🌲

“I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine, I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Live it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.”
Mary Oliver

“She is learning
to see the beauty
in the waiting,
in the failing,
in the letting go.”
@danica.gim

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