Ocean's Blog - Ocean's Ocean - Just ideas, thoughts, and meanderings. I keep a fantasy blog here: http://www.MermaidBlog.com, and this one is just light and musy, as in just musing. Or- sometimes it's opinionated, ranting, raving, or generally misbehaving in print. Isn't that what a blog is for? Also, sharing information and links, ideas, dreams, and plans. I might write about being a singer and a songwriter and producer here too. And I will post articles, and post my artwork sometimes.
Writers and Writing - Article by Ocean
Most of us write something on something. Even if it’s raging graffiti or just angsty scribblings of expression or even stick-figuring to let your feelings vent most of us write. Even to stab at the ground with a twig is writing. Or even air writing to trace the stars at night. We primates are fingery and holdy about things in our fingers and our fingers are the routes out from the triggers fired off in the brain, so… don’t let anyone tell you he or she doesn’t write. We all do.
And even before “writing” was invented, we wrote and talked and these noises and vocalizations somehow meandered through eternity fueled by our emotions and found a way out through those limbs down to the old fingers and the famous opposing thumb. Alphabets aside, thinking in words and pictures are the same thing since words stand in for both emotions and for pictures for places and events and for imaginary worlds and airy inventions that haven’t found creation yet.
Writing is cool, essentially.All animals do it but maybe not as formally as we do.We’ve compartmentalized ourselves into a neat little package of beliefs that are unsubstantiated where we’re always the center of everything. The other animals sit around and wonder at it, I’m sure.
Anyway, they all express themselves to. Throwing coconuts down onto a meanie’s head is as much writing as is a headline of the New York Times. Head-butting just as much writing as War and Peace. And a crow squawking on a fence is as much writing as is 50-cent giving out with diatribes as is the Guernica as is Woody Guthrie twanging as is Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.
Degrees are the only difference and I just mean – open your mind and notice what a weird thing writing really is, and how cool.
That a feeling can find it’s way to being into the mind and clothe itself in a made-up picture and into a thought and into a word and into a way to communicate that word.
Writing is the way out of a lot of things. The pen is mightier than the sword and so many wars and revolutions have been started with just a little written dynamite that the power of the word really speaks for itself – and loudly. Or softly.
Even though people who never learn to read have way better memories than those who learn to depend on written words, reading still bestows a wealth of experience – a way of mind-reading and time-traveling and understanding that few of the ones who still don’t know how to read would not envy.
To wield the pencil is to hold power in one’s hand, but to make abstract symbols on paper come alive is quite another thing. The magi among us, the shamans and shamanesses like, for instance, Toni Morrison, who’s captivating power of words ensnared me when I first picked up one of her books somewhere and read only a few lines can literally create worlds through words. Words that literally climbed out of the page and coalesced into a vine, a living thing, strung with colors and images and wound themselves around my mind and my soul. She is a master.
There are only a few real masters in, of, any element, and their charisma and skill is well beyond that of ordinary mortals.I want to commend them here. To honor and applaud them and to turn you onto them. Beware their wicked spells, because they really are capable of awesome things.
Something is at work in our universe that grows out of a certain type of fecundity of spirit. Great writers and other artists have this and it’s far more than mere talent. And works have their own lives to lead. They express themselves. Who knows? Maybe they choose their own vehicles and not the other way around. It certainly feels that way at times.
I like to write songs, but really, I compose music, and the melodies just sort of create themselves - they just appear in my mind. And the lytics, too, sort of create themselves and I merely give them expression. Writing is fun on subjects I enjoy, and I don’t include myself in this secret tribe of shamen, by the way, and I advocate it for everyone. We can’t all be geniuses but thankfully we can all enjoy their artistry. I’m going to have this page for links to writings and info on some masters I really admire.
I’ve gone into other worlds and have been transformed by the magic of many of these writers, so…I’d like to share the secrets of their existence with you. Some are ultra-famous still, others more obscure. I may not keep up with every writer on the new horizons but whenever a book falls into my hand, or an article, and when it begins a life of its’ own, unbidden, I know I’ve stumbled again upon a magician, so..
I have so many favorite authors – too many to name, but I’ll spotlight a few here. Some are enormously known and some need to be recognized more.Every life is an adventure, and some of these heroes of mine led amazingly interesting lives. Without that sense of adventure, who’d want to read their ideas anyway ?
The tedious lists of people writing even best-sellers who know absolutely nothing about life don’t interest me any more than do the makers of recipe films or music. In this day of blogdom, everyone writes who can grab onto a laptop. It’s no great feat to string words together in imitative ways or through formulas learned at school.The geniuses still exist, though, who can stir the blood of people seated in easy chairs.This gift is still a marvel, and I’ll focus on the ones I think should be applauded as I continue to find more heroes to exalt in this little Pantheon of mine.
Would you like to know of a great place to post your own writings ? Articles, blogs, and promo on your novels? Visit Novelist, and create your own pages!
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To Care for All Animals IS to Care for Humans
Some have the mistaken notion that to care for other animals is to not care about human animals.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
To care for all animals is to be compassionate. To be compassionate is to be Vegan, to o nly eat Compassionate foods.
To be Compassionate saves human lives from starving!
It's the ultimate win-win situation!
To heal the whole of the planet, to save human lives, and to save animal o nes at the same time as we're healing our own individual bodies and spirits is to be spiritual!
All the same!
Human Rights are Allied with All Other Animal Rights
We haven't yet seen many articles having the human rights subject,
and yet all of us are animals.
At heart, the issues all lead to the same thing - compassion is the only cure.
The animal rights activists stand very firmly on the compassionate
issues for human beings too.
To be compassionate is to extend that compassion to every being, including
those of our own specie.
We are all one.
There are many, many organizations that help humans - although none is doing enough. However - at the same time that they help, most are helping in ways that will not sustain nurturance of these hungry populations or change things,
and they are doing so using cruelty measures that introduce even more problems and continue to ruin the planet's environmental systems.
We must stand up for many different issues all at once. Win-win situations heal.
We, as an animal rights activists, combine all of the compassionate measures into o ne overall healing measure, into o ne world plan.
The drive toward Ecoizing , toward Veganizing, toward Spiritualizing, and
toward Humanizing is all the same drive, when viewed clearly.
The cure for the entire planet is compassion.
How? How does it lead to saving the starving people in Africa?
Compassion lets us understand that all these issues are vitally related:
Human Overpopulation
Solution - Being Child-Free and/or Adopting
Ecological Issues
Solution - Veganizing
Spiritual Issues
Solution - Veganizing, Being Child-Free and/or Adopting
Health Issues
Solution - Veganizing
How will these intertwine and save the world and suffering of all animals, including humans?
Eating compassionate foods means reclaiming the land now used for grazing by the meat industry, and farming grains and vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds organically.
Stopping pesticides and grazing and halting the meat industry will stop huge amounts of air, water, and land pollution, and growing grain can easily feed everyone o n earth.
Eating and living compassionately heals not only the spirit, but creates
sanity and receptivity in the mind and the emotions, supplying adequate nutrition,
vitamins, and all the requirements of health for humanity.
This spirituality will open the doors to great rapport between nations and
individuals of different cultures, and we will find solutions that bridge
the gaps beteen the haves and the have-nots.
Adopting rather than bearing children will not o nly create a human population
that the planet can live with, but it will create a spiritual enlightenment
among people, and will take care of all the children that are now starving
in the world.
Education and adequate birth control will help tremendously.
Vasectomies should be rewarded and popularized, for instance.
Also, read Eco Eat and EcoChildFree for more on this mandatory issue.
To do more than a band-aid-like gesture, and something to make the developed nations feel good, extreme changes will be necessary.
Every year, there is great need in many regions of the world for the human
populations, and the Western nations, who traditionally used to send grain,
now do not have the grain to send, due to the fact that the meat industry
has taken over the land, the commerce, and the culture, and not enough people
demonstrate that they care.
Also, as the humans continue to overpopulate, and as disease casualties continue to rise, those in the more stable areas continue to embrace apathy.
The problems are immense.
The cures are enormously challenging, and yet, if we do actually love humanity, the world, the other species, and ourselves, we will need to start right now
to change the world, and choose to be Compassionate with our food!
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