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When your eyes are tired the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb tonight.

The night will give you a horizon further than you can see.

You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

by David Whyte

Hello… is anybody there… ?
The UN says the world is in the midst of the greatest mass extinction since the big one - yep, Dinosoars - 65 million years ago. In 2007, one of the Earth’s oldest living species, the Baiji dolphin, was considered extinct and no longer to be found in it’s home, the mighty Yangtze River (over fishing and environmental degredation)

Cetaceans are more than sentinals of the sea or canaries in the coal mine - they are at the top of the food chain and when they are endangered and reaching extinction while everybody’s busy worrying about the markets - you know we’re in deep shit.

Links:
uTube vid on Pacific gyre
AmericanCetaceanSociety ACS conference this weekend in Monterey
NRDC resourses
guardian/environment/gallery

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Mary Oliver, Selected Poems

Obviously using food crops for fuel is a phenomenally stupid idea that could only be born of the rapacious corporate mind for profit before humanity.

An effective solution to the issue of using vegetable oils for diesel fuel is exemplified in this eye opening video on prolific algae farmed fuel oil production (though of course we’d like to see glass tubes or other materials in the place of the implicated seas of plastic here wouldn’t we)
(And remembering, that this is still fuel for the archaic combustion engine and remains an interim solution for an antique technology.)

[Planet Waves] Bucky Fuller: This Is The Future

Born Friday, July 12, 1895, which makes today his 113th birth anniversary. He shares a birth year with Dane Rudhyar, Rudolph Valentino, Jeddu Krishnamurti and Carl Orff

… informative article on Bucky Fuller dymaxion design and astrological musings here

… the fire is coming up the slope towards our house. Flames are erupting immediately all around. Candles in the house are igniting spontaneously from the heat and gasses - there’s fire everywhere! I yell to Jessie call 911, call the neighbours, get help, we gotta run, but she’s just talking away to a girlfriend on the phone… I wake, heart pounding, it’s hot as hell, smoke filling the air. The wind has changed. I get up to close the windows, go back to bed, but the smoky air has my adrenalin still pumped - this is the subliminal edge we’ve (all) been living on for the last weeks…

Pico Blanco from the top of Green Ridge, dusk on Thursday

… and when the burn is over and the rains come and wash out our roads, and the wild flowers bloom in orgeastic splendor, in celebration of lifes relentless renewal, the cycle will begin again…

more pictures below.