Vocation and Invocation in Partnership with Oceans and Earth

This June 20, 2011 post on Huffington Post outlines the increased pace at which the oceans are being compromised. Reading it is distressing, and yet there is value to being able to recognize, fully feel, and honor that distress. Someone needs to witness it, and for those of us who feel the pain of earth as the world soul cries out for attention, we may begin to understand that to hear that call - that invocation for help and holding--places us squarely "in vocation."

Can it be a calling--a vocation-- to hear the call of the earth's oceans, of that great goddess Iemanjá, and to enter into partnership to call on Spirit on her behalf? Food for thought...

State Of The Ocean: 'Shocking' Report Warns Of Mass Extinction From Current Rate Of Marine Distress

Thank you Bonnie for this important and sadly sobering report on our Ocean.

One thing we can do is participate in this event:

"Saturday June 25 is International “Hands Across the Sand” day – a show of hands (and bodies) in opposition to offshore oil and gas extraction, and in support of renewable energy systems.

It can be stated unequivocally that fossil fuel is killing our planet (and running our country). This opposition movement started in Florida on February 13, 2010 when 10,000 Floridians showed up to express solidarity in support of halting the expansion of oil drilling off their coast. Then on June 26, 2010, it became a global affair with millions of international citizens responding to the BP Gulf-oil disaster.

You can find a local event through the Hands Across the Sand web page. If you are in Northern California there are a number of locations. I will be attending as a speaker at the Sonoma Coast Surfrider sponsored event at Doran Brach, 1 mile south of Bodega Bay.

I am humbled by the stature and reach of the other speakers at the Doran Beach event, which include Richard Charter (who we can thank for the California drilling moratorium), Bill Kortum (father of the Coastal Conservation Act), stalwart fisheries and fishermen defender Zeke Grader, Efran Carrillo, chair and 5^th district supervisor on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, and Tom Roth, formerly Chief of Staff for Rep. Lynn Woolsey (CA 6^th district), and now with State Senator Noreen Evans." from Michael Stocker at http://www.OCR.org

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Julie Ann Perkins June 22, 2011 at 7:56am

Thank you Bonnie for this important and sadly sobering report on our Ocean.

One thing we can do is participate in this event:

"Saturday June 25 is International “Hands Across the Sand” day – a show of hands (and bodies) in opposition to offshore oil and gas extraction, and in support of renewable energy systems.

It can be stated unequivocally that fossil fuel is killing our planet (and running our country). This opposition movement started in Florida on February 13, 2010 when 10,000 Floridians showed up to express solidarity in support of halting the expansion of oil drilling off their coast. Then on June 26, 2010, it became a global affair with millions of international citizens responding to the BP Gulf-oil disaster.

You can find a local event through the Hands Across the Sand web page. If you are in Northern California there are a number of locations. I will be attending as a speaker at the Sonoma Coast Surfrider sponsored event at Doran Brach, 1 mile south of Bodega Bay.

I am humbled by the stature and reach of the other speakers at the Doran Beach event, which include Richard Charter (who we can thank for the California drilling moratorium), Bill Kortum (father of the Coastal Conservation Act), stalwart fisheries and fishermen defender Zeke Grader, Efran Carrillo, chair and 5^th district supervisor on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, and Tom Roth, formerly Chief of Staff for Rep. Lynn Woolsey (CA 6^th district), and now with State Senator Noreen Evans." from Michael Stocker at http://www.OCR.org

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