Prayer For The Gulf of Mexico and Wildlife

I was given a copy of an email from Ingrid, a European herbalist-philosopher, who has asked us all to combine in a joint prayer, a worldwide healing "net" that we can hold over the Gulf of Mexico together many times daily, and can ask God for an immediate miracle to save lives there, and to save our environment, to change hearts and minds, and to empower all those who are helping.

This is exactly what I had begun doing, instinctively, as soon as it had happened - the explosion in the Gulf of Mexico - asking God while holding a vision in my mind of the gush diminishing into nothingness, and turning back into the clear, pale, sea green water of before.

Please join with us all! Pray many times daily!

And donate! HumaneSociety.org

And go down, as I am, and help in person, if you can!

Tears Of A Child

Tears Of A Child

On a precious little heroine, Olivia Bouler, whose photo is above.

Experts tell us that there are one in every twenty-five humans who are sociopaths.
Experience lets us know that there are either more, or that many people, who at worst are easily led, choose to sleep-walk through life and to allow the sociopaths to ruin our planet.

I cannot imagine choosing to bequeath a ruined planet to our children.
OUR children.

As our planet belongs to all of us in concert - all beings, all life  - so, too, do the children of all beings, of all species.

I have written before on the rapacious greed that has fed the nefarious oil industry and those who live off corporate investments, and on how it amazes me that they can sleep at night, knowing the world that they are ruining for their own kids, grandkids, and for the children of everyone else.

The most poignant response I have seen to this epic tragedy is by a beautiful young child named Olivia, whose lovely portraits of birds she has donated in the cause of helping the innocent animals caught in the oil. In the news story, Olivia, who was then walking away with her mother and who had assumed she was finished being filming, broke down, crying, and sobbing, "The birds are so innocent! It's not their fault! They don't deserve this!"

And my heart broke and I, too, began sobbing inconsolably.
Feeling the deaths all around me, feeling helpless to stop it, has been the worst thing I have ever experienced in my life.

And seeing that young child of such a tender age suffering under the burden of tenderness for the countless beings who we've lost, or are losing, or will lose, and, despite appealing to our Creator, despite donating, and despite giving of ourselves and our time and labor...despite all, knowing that cruel and powerful people who could have stopped this much earlier were too late to act...

All of this...

Pray for little Olivia, for the Humane Society, for all the heroic volunteers now in the Gulf of Mexico, helping any way they can, and pray for the little souls who cannot understand, who cannot help themselves, and who are the victims of human greed.

Visit Olivia's help site here at the Audubon Society and please help this precious girl save the Gulf.

And please donate to the Humane Society here.

Pray For WIldlife - Sea Turtles

I, and all the Mers, are extremely worried and distressed about the severe cold visiting even Southern Florida and beyond these days!

The wildlife, of course, along with any pets of people who are so unkind as to force them to live outside, are the ones who need the most help.

Sea Turtles do not have the luxury of burrowing in mud and hibernating, as do their fresh water cousins, when temperatures plumet. Instead, they are at the mercy of the weather, and they actually pass out in shock from the cold, float, or are deposited on the shore, where, when things are just right, they are found by kindly humans and reported to rescue agencies.

See below for rescue contact info.

Naturally, though unseen, we Mers stay underneath and keep Sea Turtles afloat, pushing them gently toward human rescuers so they can be taken to warm places when the water gets too cold, but even we can't be everywhere!

And how to Mers manage to be in cold or hot waters? We, being cold-blooded as are all fish, have a body chemistry that allows for comfortable temperature tolerance, unlike the Sea Turtles and many other beings.

Please read about Sea Turles at the links below, and learn more about these wonderful companions of ours!

And please do what you can, even if it's just praying with a positive attitude and sending your spiritual, soul energy to the Sea Turtles and to all beings who need help especially in this season.

(I personally pray many times every day for God to send help and protection to every being on our fragile, young Planet, Sea, and especially for the most helpless of all - the ones many cruel humans keep confined in unfathomably torturous conditions and raise for meat, which to all of us Mermaids and Mermen and to any compassionate human is only cannibalism.

Please pray for the farm - actually "farmed" animals. A terrible term for a terrible sin against God's innocent, helpless beings.)

Great Info on Sea Turtles.

Help or report a Sea Turtle in need Here.

Adopt a Caribbean Sea Turtle Here!

Great Idea!

HOST A PARTY FOR TURTLES - Share your passion for sea turtles by throwing a Sea Turtle House Party.

News item on the cold and how it affects Turtles Here.

Another nice article on Sea Turtles at Ecoize.com.

Mermaid Blog - Sea Turtles

For Earlier Mermaid Blog Entries, Visit Ecoize.com

And Help Us Save Beautiful Sea Turtles Here at Oceana.org

I've been out swimming with dolphins, enjoying careening through large waves at high tide, body surfing with them and with the many other sea beings who enjoy surfing and playing when the waves are large! Other mammals like dolphins and porpoises do, and even manatees, and many types of fish like I am of all sizes love to be lifted up, carried for a ride, and, depending on the size of the fish and of the wave, some smaller ones jump out of the face of the folding wave and jump backward to behind the wave lines, and some dive straight down into the water as it's pulling backward, under the wave before it falls!

I do some of both, since we Mers tend to a larger size than many of the other fish who body surf, but then again, many of the sea mammals who body surf do so further away from the beach and the shallow water, following boats and getting lifted up by the wakes the crafts bring!

Along with having fun and enjoying the colors of the sunsets, as all the fish who live near enough to the surface do, jumping up sometimes in whole troops to see the strong fuscias, goldens, and oranges spread out along the horizon and to say a shimmering good-night to the Sun, I've been staying close to the areas where the magnificent sea turtles lay their eggs, watching out for the nests and so on. Now the babies are mainly hatched and out in the open seas of the world enjoying their childhoods!

I'm happy in a way that Baby Turtle season is over, since I worry about their nests, strewn out along our coastlines in the warm seas, and watched over by countless wonderful human volunteers, who walk the beaches morning and night to find and to protect their nests with fencing, and so on - not because I don't adore seeing the Darling Babies clambering cutely along the sand and running straight into the water to swim their tiny hearts out! Not because of them, of course - just because it's stressful, helping to watch out for them! I and many other Mers spend lots of time near the shore, just making sure their nests are safe while the Mama turtles are laying the eggs and while the little eggs are needing safety while the babies develop inside, and then - oh, joy! - the babies hatch! We're all out there, making commotions with our huge tails to divert people who might carelessly walk too near the nests, or making noise to deter birds from going near, and scaring away alligators or other animals!

And when we're in shallow water, it's not as comfortable, with our long tails, and with our need to stay incognito, so it's understandable that our favorite part of the whole seven month period is when we Mers can breathe a watery lungful of relief and retreat out to deep water as we escort the Baby Turtles !They're so cute! We love helping the humans who protectcthe turtles, and when the babies hatch, then we get to accompany them as they swim with their precious little arms out to sea, unlike the humans!

This is the most fun part of all! We wish we could share this with those who devote their time to be "foster parents" for all wildlife.

We adore the humans who volunteer to help save innocent lives!

So, after the babies begin to swim, we collectively stretch out to our full length and go out to kelp beds where we - all Mers are vegan, of course - feed on fresh seaweed with the little newborn turtles!

Then, we Mers, stretching and swimming all around, get to see tons of these little dolls as they discover our fabulous underwater world!

It's a really fun time of year, and I thought I'd share it with you, since most humans will never know the thrill of seeing the babies hatch, and no human will ever see them learning to swim out at sea.

I hope you can imagine it!

Being a Mer is fun!