{"id":229,"date":"2010-06-06T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/?p=229"},"modified":"2010-07-08T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T22:29:54","slug":"beached-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/06\/beached-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Beached Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oil paddies, photo by Joe Denton, June 5, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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? \u2026 to my wife? \u2026 to my children? I don\u2019t know.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The birds, crabs, and fish at Katrina Cut have little choice. Two birds huddling together stared at me with a look of deep uncertainty. Nearby dolphins fed on schools of mullet. The animals there were nesting, resting, and swimming with the oil … a paradise lost. Large horseshoe crabs once flourishing in these waters were washing ashore dead.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m upset because I\u2019m losing this paradise. I feel cheated. But why am I upset? Why, when so many people around me live in daily fear, rejection, and denied opportunities. Perhaps the oil eruption will crash my attachments and illusions … prompt me to care more and fear less … to regain reality.\u00a0The crucified live all around me. The oil eruption is toxic … symptomatic of all that I have neglected. It’s a rude awakening, but\u00a0I needed a real kick in the pants.<\/p>\n

We as a human family need healing just as our environment needs healing. But healing can only be found with the crucified \u2026 jobless \u2026 unnoticed \u2026 lost \u2026 hurting \u2026 imprisoned \u2026 mourning \u2026 all of us included and active.<\/p>\n

Energetic cooperation between all of us is where we find the Spirit, our All in All, who boundlessly enlightens, empowers, and heals. Fears, illusions, and attachments can\u00a0hold us back, but now is the time to share our lives, needs,\u00a0and talents. Our promised future is passionately reaching out to us but it is unwritten.<\/p>\n

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Mia Rose singing Unwritten <\/em>by Natasha Bedingfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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