⊃ ∇ ⊙ Ask more questions. Waste less.
Today’s post is to show my solidarity with the social media challenge #fevriersanssupermarche ‘No-Supermarket February’ – that means no supermarkets for a month! Food shopping is to be done at farmer’s markets and small greengrocers, butchers, organic, bulk or specialist food shops instead.
The aim is to detach people from the belief that they must fund overly polluting mega-nationals to survive, and return some cash flow into the smaller, local economies that help our communities thrive.
According to dominant scientific theories, all of life on this planet originates from the oceans. The official history of aquatic evolution is so much richer than that which has developed on solid ground.
That head start of billions of years in the evolutionary process means that almost every single branch of the tree of life is represented. Some branches even exist exclusively underwater.
With so much of the planet covered in water, it isn’t surprising that scientists make new discoveries every day. At times in shapes, types and forms we couldn’t even fathom existing on our planet.
Continue reading “Breaking Waters”Buckle up, grab a cuppa, perhaps a smoke and a pancake, it’s kinda wild and long. So come on…
It does indeed seem like nothing on this planet lasts forever, except maybe diamonds and plastic (and quite possibly also foolishness, observable through the rising favour for transhumanism and the metaverse, lol fun times ey?!).
In a “real world” that appears to be enormously lacking logical coherence, we could be asking ourselves what we can do right now to make it more coherent. Right now, we could be creating space for our varied and gentle expressions to co-exist kindly, rather than amplifying despair and allowing our darkest aspects to run the show.
So many advances, so much change, yet here we are, still killing, dominating and culturally cleansing ourselves and each other in fear. Here’s that ever-applicable phrase I love to use; we can change the players, even change the teams, but the game stays much the same. For now, it appears all we are capable of is pointing fingers and passing blame. Tirelessly fanning the flames of unhealthy competition and useless victimhood. Looking to the financially-set and power-hungry “professionals” to guide us whilst conveniently avoiding bringing them or ourselves into question or taking any responsibility for it at all.
When in reality we could be learning a new game that doesn’t benefit the same old cheats and posers over and over again. Building something simple yet wholly wonderful. Something that honours humanity through our integrated differences, celebrates and allows a real container for natural development, a potential of possibility to be learned from, in balance with us all here and now. Rather than continuing to behave mindlessly, or vindictively, as we have been led so far, clearly to our own collective detriment. Wasting our perfect, coherent, natural expressions in an illusionary and heavily manipulated experience that only really benefits a few who couldn’t care less for our general and ongoing wellbeing as a whole.
Continue reading “In Death, Nothing Stays Unchanged”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Jung
There’s something so delicious about surrendering yourself to the present moment. Something shifts and allows you to fully stand inside the immensity of the universe. Something that makes you realise although you are a mere and insignificant speck in the fabric of reality, it is where you are meant to be right here and now. Something that allows you to recognise yourself fully and that which is truly important to you.
Take time to find the beauty in nature around you and right there within you, because that’s the only thing that is real. You are insanely powerful, and everything you do has an effect here. This planet is paradise if we choose it to be. Take a deep breath, renew yourself, savour the smell of the fresh air and always remember that you are loved. Your life on this planet is a precious gift to all of us, so act accordingly. 💙🌺
“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.
Continue reading “Plogging”
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.
Abraham-Hicks @abrahamhickspublications
“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.”
“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.
Isn’t it weird that we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about our planet’s oceans?
The secrets are many, and our foolishness just as vast. For we are likely to destroy many of these underwater treasures without even having an inkling of their existence, secrets that could have held the key to so many enigmas and solved so many of our manmade problems.
Continue reading “Our Duty”
She wears many hats, but she doesn’t have to.
We all fill roles in life, and we have become adept at playing the parts given to us without much resistance or wonder.
We have become resigned to our roles without question, almost content in giving away our power. Complacent, unwilling and uninformed because that’s just the way it is, right?
Even if it appears that you are standing alone right now. Even if it feels like you are drifting from everything you once knew. Even if nobody has walked your path before, you are never truly alone, ever.
This is for anyone who is making changes and building their mindset consciously, whatever that might look like. Those who are developing their ideas, questioning everything they know and don’t. For the people who are choosing to evolve ethically, sustainably, kindly but still can’t do right by their entourage.
For those who are brave enough to feel awake in the darkness around them, and set out alone. For those who are bold in the face of discrimination, oppression, injustice and lies. For those wise enough to teach themselves, and wild enough to want change. For those strong enough to face the shadows and come out brighter.
I see you and I love you.
We got this.
💙