Archive for the ‘Being real’ Category
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
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Leo Denton · 
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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
Walk on the water
Simon was a fisherman. Like Simon many of us have job titles too. But we’re more than that. When the fish seemed gone, Simon had an amazing friend who said that from now on he would be a fisher of people. Simon asked his friend to leave him, but his friend assured him that nothing […]
June 11, 2010
· Leo Denton · No Comments
Tags: Britt Nicole, Dauphin Island, Everything we touch, Fishing, Gulf oil spill, Hands across the Sand, Walking on water · Posted in: Being real, Dreams, Music, Nature, Oil spill
Wise Straight Forward Honesty
Yesterday while riding bikes with my daughter, Julita, I watched the oil clean-up workers. I realized that these stressed workers covered with grimy, late afternoon sweats must have some very valuable perspectives. As I listened to several cough, I wondered about their health. I wondered also how their lives and their relationships with nature, people, and God […]
June 10, 2010
· Leo Denton · 2 Comments
Tags: Oil clean-up workers · Posted in: Being real, Divisiveness, Nature, Oil spill
Beached Oil
On Saturday, while doing volunteer beach work, I got a harsh, unwanted kick in the pants. Paddies of foul smelling oil and toxic dispersants were all around me. How toxic to me? … to my wife? … to my children? I don’t know. The birds, crabs, and fish at Katrina Cut have little choice. Two […]
June 6, 2010
· Leo Denton · 31 Comments
Tags: Cooperation, Dauphin Island, Dolphin, Gulf oil spill, Healing, Horseshoe crabs, Mia Rose, Natasha Bedingfield, Paradise, Polution, Spirit, Unwritten, Wildlife · Posted in: Being real, Community, Music, Nature, Oil spill