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This is the Time

This is the Time

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moonsea2This is the time I love. When all is quiet except the sea. The only voices I hear are in the waves or maybe the stars singing those high treble notes or the full moon bringing her deep alto soothing voice to my starved ears.

mooncloudsThe sea turtle hatchlings made their bold appearance and are now swimming towards grandmother moon through the silver moon glade.

moonseaThis is peace. This is living. Alone, but not really. Nature spirits dance in wild abandon at the miraculous birth of ninety-three loggerheads and who knows…I might soon join them in their dancing.

The Moon–Another Resource to be Exploited?

The Moon–Another Resource to be Exploited?

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I saw a report on the news that NASA’s launch and intentional crash of two scientific, data-gathering rockets has yielded a surprise. The moon has large amount of frozen water in some of those lovely craters. The first thing they start thinking is this: We could harvest that water. Because of the high concentration of hydrogen sulfide it could be an amazing source of fuel…specifically, rocket fuel.

Have we not raped and pillaged our own planet enough? We have to spread the viral conquer-and-deplete practice to objects in outer space now? I sat in disbelief that given the recent events of environmental disasters–Gulf Oil Spill, Toxic Waste flooding a town in Hungary, Chile mining disaster, Ecuador mining disaster, China mining disaster to name a few of recent months–we have not changed the way we, as a collective, think.

What will it take for us to learn that we can appreciate and be grateful for resources without exploiting them, without even taking action to harvest anything? What will it take?