Archive for June, 2010
Scoring Goals for Others
This spring Island Soccer started at the Dauphin Island Elementary school yard with Tracey and Zicky Hart, mother and son, playing soccer together. The school yard, however, was taken over by BP, but that didn’t stop the families that have joined the fun. “We’re very grateful that the Baptist Church is letting us play on […]
June 23, 2010
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Leo Denton · 
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Tags: Hands across the Sand, Soccer · Posted in: General
When Natural Disasters are Bad Enough who Needs Oil Spills
The National Hurricane Center is watching a tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea. This system could develop into a tropical storm and enter the Gulf of Mexico next week. The effects of any tropical storms or hurricanes on the oil eruption, gulf environment, capping efforts, and clean-up efforts are anyone’s guess. Predicting the number of […]
June 21, 2010
· Leo Denton · One Comment
Posted in: Nature, Oil spill
Oil Returns to Dauphin Island Waters
Saturday afternoon, in the Mississippi Sound just north of Dauphin Island, my brother, Joe, and I (in his boat) passed through sizable areas of surface oil. Click pictures below for larger, more detailed images. In Katrina Cut, despite oil in the water just to the north, larger fish and birds were having a feeding frenzy […]
June 19, 2010
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Tags: Mississippi Sound · Posted in: Nature, Oil spill
Make Your Noise
When a voice is needed, “Silence is the voice of complicity!” This Latin proverb calls us to ACTION … non-complicity … noise! Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten (see Beached Oil) calls us to open up our dirty windows, let the sun illuminate us, reach for something in the distance … “No one else can feel it for […]
June 17, 2010
· Leo Denton · One Comment
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Connectedness, Freedom, In Touch, Natasha Bedingfield, Silence, Simon and Garfunkle, Sounds of Silence, Unwritten · Posted in: Being real, Making noise