Winter Solstice

It's now, today, December 21st, the last day of Autumn, and at midnight, it will become the first day of Winter.

The shortest day of the year, today, earlier, seemed like it to me, the daylight angling through the water straight down, then twisted around, then mirrored, then shooting out in sheets, as usual, but not quite enough of it, it felt.

Not enough light.

I prefer to haunt the Southern Hemisphere this time of year, to enjoy their opposite seasons, but I find myself here in the Northern one for awhile, yearning for the Sun.

Some things have occurred lately to remind me of the ever present, ongoingness of time, and of continuous change. I've lost someone dear to me. And in the losing, I've been immersed in memories of the past, of a past that, although Mers do not age nearly as much as do land beings, like humans, cannot be repeated.

We, too, are finite organisms.

Unlike humans, we Mers accept the way Nature made us, and do not, nor would we, have scientists whose aim is to find ways either to extend life or to disguise age.

Individuals are all so very unique - and so very irreplaceable, and unforgettable.

I find, as do so many souls in this time of year, when holidays loom and joviality mingles with regret and when we so richly mourn the ones who used to spend them with us, and now cannot, that this otherwise joyous time is rather melancholy.

So much more so now, though, since one I had loved has left this plane.

Spirituality extends throughout the animal kingdom - oh, yes, it is by no means only humans who are spiritual - all beings, great and small, have thoughts and feelings of God - and only the Presence can assuage such sadness.

Send some love to everyone around you, strangers included, since sorrow is perhaps more a sign of this season than is joy, for most...

Wintertime

It's Winter in half of the world.
Beautiful in some places, we Mers love the cold, being fish who can indulge in cold water exploration, and I've been to both the polar caps since I"ve last transmitted info to Ocean for this blog.
Iciness, whether in filigree patterns or in massive bergs is glorious, especially when struck by the Sunlight.
How do we enjoy the extreme cold, being slender as are all fish, and not bulky as the sea mammals are?
It's all in The Mers, Ocean's book trilogy that is largely dictated by me, since, let's face it, even surfers like Ocean and even Navy Seals do not know the first thing about our lives in the sea.
Being a sea dwellers is so different from being a land lubber that only I as a Mer could lead humans through, if not the reality of being undersea, then at least through the epic stories about our lives there. As much as Ocean has explained what being a human is like to me, I admit that I could never truly understand what it is to be an air-breathing, land dwelling mammal - nor would I want to if it meant spending even one moment as one of you!
Forgive me, but really, those old Mermaid Tales about Mers who long to be with humans and to live as them are simply ludicrous to us!
If you knew even a fraction of how lush and paradisical our lives were, you'd abandon all your old stories at once!
I suppose that your desire to live as Mers has always been so intense that your mythologies have grown to express a need to appreciate your lives on the land, since you have no real choice. Nor, of course, do I, but I do think most humans - so many of whom I've witnessed sighing and looking at the seas of the world - would adore being one of the Mers.
And not just because we can travel easily, quickly, and while having fun - yes, our freedom is the primary thing - and can visit exotic locales on our planet at will, and not just because there are so many of the Mers enjoying the ice and snow, communing with Polar Bears and being with Penguins and at the same time, so many more in tropical waters, indulging in everything fun there!
Meanwhile, my idea is to urge everyone to enjoy life wherever he or she is! It's all good!


Beautiful Bears


AnimalFix


Info On Winter Mythology

And here is Ocean's painting of me enjoying the icy waters near - make note of this - The North Pole, water-dancing and playing chase with some locals like Polar Bears, Walruses, and Orcas! Stay tuned to hear more about my adventures in the farthest North, and I just might visit the most famous person of the North! (Hint - he's humanish, though not really human - super-human, in fact, and wears red!)

Human Overpopulation and Being Child Free

You all - all you humans - realize that there are simply far too many humans on our planet for our planet to sustain, don't you?
Have you decided to make a personal statement by your love for all life to be child free?
It's the eco thing to do, of course.
And the one thing that will actually save our planet.
We Mers have ways as easy as your own to make sure we'll always be child free - or in our case, since we're fish, of course, egg free and seed free!
It's such a nice way to live!
We also used to have an overpopulation problem under the sea. The quality of life for all life, especially for the countless new Mers born every year without enough sustenance, (due also, alas to human overpopulation, human pollution, and loss of habitat), was getting worse and worse. So we Mers convened a worldwide council, discussed the matter, and decided to put easy methods of what you would think of as vasectomies and birth control in order to get the balance back into our world.
We, as you, would be uncomfortable with abortion or in any way harming life already forming within us, so we worked together to find easy ways to stop fertility and to stop egg and seed formation instead and to make it available to every Mer.
Now we have a manageable and happy population ! You humans can too!
It's a win-win situation.
Individuals would have happier, healthier, wealthier lives, and the kids in need will find homes!
For those who feel a need to parent, there are literally millions of orphaned, unwanted, abandoned, and already starving human infants, babies, and children begging to be adopted.

Want to be green? To be eco? To be compassionate?
Then make sure to stay child free and/or adopt.
Use at least two forms of birth control.
Stay sober when dating, and preferably, date only guys who are cool enough to have had a vasectomy.
It's still easier for guys to get fixed, so urge your guy.

Quality of individual life is far superior for those who stay child free, they have much more disposable income, they're free, their relationships are happier and - did you know that the child free are in the majority?
Meaning that there are more people who are child free than those who have bred.
So - think about what you're doing, prepare for situations in which you might become pregnant, stay sober and aware, and you're being eco!

Read:

Eco Child Free

ChildFix

Read The Questionnaire, Then

And Take The Child Free Pledge!

Whales and Dolphins - Mermaid Blog 11909

Visit Love Whales

Their size makes it impossible for them to hide. Their intelligence makes them know they deserve kindness. Their huge hearts know what love is and o­nly give us compassion and want the same from us.
We all say we love whales. Love is action. 
Please follow this link and help to change the tide for these most 
helpless victims.



Of other beings, a wise human wrote: "We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."- Henry Beston

We Mers adore whales. Every specie of whale is a wondrous being, and I personally have many close friends among them.
Even Mers - and, yes, we are known for our beautiful voices - pause and luxuriate in the luscious tones of singing whales, stunned at the loveliness of their vocals, and fascinated by the ever-evolving songs. Creative songwriters, all whales are mult-talented and as intelligent as they are large.

Please help us protect them! You do know that their smaller brethren, the dolphins and porpoises, are also whales, don't you?
Dolphins, as other whales, also are quite wonderful dancers, as well as surfers.
We adore being near whales for the great vibrations (literal and figurative!) that they emanate.
Physically, just riding the bubbles they emit can be a blast!
And being tossed around in the currents the huge whales' bodies create is so fun!

But the soulfulness, the vibes that only a huge heart and deep, tender understanding can shine out like the light of an inner Sun, is the true measure of any being, isn't it?
And whales shine brightly!
Keep them safe!

Mermaid Blog - Butterflies - Download this beautiful Butterflier!

It’s Butterfly Season ! Print out the Beautiful, Hand-illustrated Butterfly Flier and Take it to your community bulletin boards and Save Some Butterflies ! Fly Here !

And read this stunning little article o n birdies !

Mers love butterflies! Don't you?

We often swim up waterways just to find grassy meadows within view of us that are visited by Butterflies!

And, sometimes, in their magical way, they'll fly over and light on our outstretched (webbed) fingers! We air dry our hands first, of course, just to be polite.

This time of year, it's a gratifying passtime - Butterfly sightings!

I've been delighting in seeing all kinds of gloriously gorgeous butterflies winging their way around, some in mighty migration, like the golden orange Monarchs, and some more localized, colorful sails lighting from flower to flower!

Please everyone, drive slowly when you see butterflies in range, and Give Butterflies a Brake!

Please Protect Infants and Innocent Babies Now

Please, all of you humans - please for us Mers who love and care about every being in the world - take a moment of your time and push this link to send a letter to protect innocent babies - just tiny infants who have only your voices to help them!

Thank you from all the Mers!

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The nature of compassion.

Why is it that "small men's complex" seems to have amplified among those who erroneously link cruelty with some sort of strength?

It's completely perverting the meaning of what being "manly" is, and yet the weak and simple-minded have somehow absorbed the corporate imperatives forced upon audiences by money-grubbing institutions who want to: split families in order to make sure that individuals are miserable. Why? Because miserable, empty, lonely people buy more gadgets, drink more alcohol, smoke more cigarettes, and cause more destruction, once again, meaning more sales.

Add to that medical drugs to stave off their depression, deprived of any meaningful relationships in life, these dejected and less-than-savvy consumers indulge in even post-adolescent male bonding that should have been left behind in junior high.

So, while the women and children are contained and constrained in the straight-jacket ideals of being stalwart, responsible, and essentially holding the bag while the men who would be boys hang out and play, the societal views perpetuated by the uncaring forces of marketplace propaganda lean toward the view that in order to have "fun", one must poke fun at weaker people, make fools of the opposite sex and view them as prey to "bag" and to use, and treat every helpless and needy being with anything but compassion.

To be strong, in reality, means to be kind to weaker beings, and bullying constitutes bad behavior toward someone smaller than oneself.

Once upon a time, anyone being cruel to a smaller or weaker or less able being, whether one's wife, child, or a member of another specie, would have been deemed a very low - and very unmanly specimen.

When did this - cruelty - become a source of sport for the demented?

It's easy to trace through the degeneration of TV shows, for instance, and in the downfall of spiritual strongholds like churches and schools, but how can we turn this around?

Stiffer laws against bullies and psychopaths, obviously, but careful monitoring of childrens' viewing habits would help.

And the widespread opening up of a dialogue on the subject - creating venues in which men can learn that the actual position of machoism is, and always has been, to protect the innocents and the weak.

As a Mer, I cannot fathom how some of your males, and even some of your females, have been manipulated into this type of stance.

Regardless whether someone eats meat or not, I'm very sure that all humans want and demand that innocent babies be treated kindly, no matter what the specie.

Please, for all of us - sign this and make sure these cruel people are prosecuted and the humane laws are upheld.

After all, cruelty to one weaker soul will always become cruelty to human children as well.

Please Protect Infants and Innocent Babies Now

Please, all of you humans - please for us Mers who love and care about every being in the world - take a moment of your time and push this link to send a letter to protect innocent babies - just tiny infants who have only your voices to help them!

Thank you from all the Mers!