Hands Across the Sand

From the website:

Hands Across the Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses political affiliations. This movement is not about politics; it is about protection of our coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife, and fishing industry. Let us share our knowledge, energies and passion for protecting all of the above from the devastating effects of oil drilling.

• Go to your beach on June 26 at 11 AM in your time zone.
• Form lines in the sand and at 12:00, join hands.

The image is powerful, the message is simple. NO to Offshore Oil Drilling, YES to Clean Energy.

The image is powerful, the message is simple. NO to Offshore Oil Drilling, YES to Clean Energy.

I will actually be on a beach on the East Coast on June 26th and will be standing hand in hand with others in solidarity with the statement that we want no more offshore drilling.

Check out the map on the website to find a location near you. There are actions taking place along oceans, rivers, and lakes all around the world.

It doesn't escape my awareness that I will be standing on a beach on the Atlantic coast only because I flew in a plane that is most likely fueled by a product of offshore drilling. And I'm typing on a computer that is using electricity that is created by... well, I don't even know.

I wanted to post about how, through the amazing amount of oil that we are pouring into her waters, we are destroying our Mother . How we can't live without these waters and the life that they support.

If you view my blog through an RSS feed, you have probably seen THREE aborted blog posts on this subject. Geez. Every time I tried to type the title to the post, SOMEONE would hit a key that would publish my unfinished post.

I began to think that, for some reason, I wasn't supposed to talk about this subject. Especially on Mother's Day when I should be celebrating both the fact that I have the most awesomest offspring AND a mother who has put up with me all of these *&(+% years.

I can't plug up the geyser that BP and others have allowed to occur - the geyser that is destroying any balance of life in the oceans south of my country.

But I CAN celebrate the woman who birthed me and I can live in awe of the beauty of giving birth to my wonderful son and daughter.

And I can feel the sadness that comes when we watch the abuse of someone/something that we hold precious.

Here is the link I wanted to share: Is Gulf oil rig disaster far worse than we're being told?

And here is a quote from the article:

There's no telling where this continuous stream of oil will end up and what damage it might cause. Theoretically, we could be looking at modern man's final act of destruction on planet Earth, because this one oil rig blowout could set in motion a global extinction wave that begins with the oceans and then whiplashes back onto human beings themselves.

We cannot live without life in the oceans. Man is arrogant to drill so deeply into the belly of Mother Earth, and through this arrogance, we may have just set in motion events that will ultimately destroy us. In the future, we may in fact talk about life on Earth as "pre-spill" versus "post-spill." Because a post-spill world may be drowned in oil, devoid of much ocean life, and suffering a global extinction event that will crash the human population by 90 percent or more.

We may have just done to ourselves, in other words, what a giant meteorite did to the dinosaurs.

Maybe this isn't the last straw in our attempts to annihilate everything on this planet.

But I know that we don't treat those we love with such reckless indifference.

It's about time we treated our Mother as though we loved her.


(Take that, Blogger. I refuse to try to title this post. I will NOT be published before my time.)