From Rabbits To Snakes To Mind-Blowing Conclusions On Earth Day

EASTER came and went in a blink of an eye. That page has been turned and now it's Earth Day again.

We had a nice visit with our daughter over the holidays. It seems like it was just yesterday when she was a child. We leafed through the past and in an old album found a picture of her holding a rabbit (left). It reminded me of the Penelope art (lower right) she painted for me when she was small.

I've spent hours recreating this imaginary character who plays in an environment friendly to all. The pastime is relaxing and the scenes idyllic in contrast to the new report about our intensifying climate and its mind-blowing conclusions about Canada heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world, not due to borders but rather geography and melting of ice.

Fact, fantasy and denial converge as Earth evolves to its own natural conclusions. Meanwhile, harmful carbon dioxide caused by human activity definitely can be reduced and extend our stay here.

Like the reptile (below) snugly wrapped around a boy's arm, the world is tied up in knots over climate change. With their futures most at stake, youth are working to preserve life in a myriad of ways. Locally, a boy and his sidekick, Charlie the snake, raised funds for the Urban Safari Rescue Society.

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Still the kid I used to be

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Space Flowers & Other Mysteries Of The Universe

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." William Blake

THE UNIVERSE is indifferent and gazillions more massive than my mind can grasp. Bombastic burning gases, rolling airless planets and fathomless black holes (pictured for the first time HERE), makes me a speck of extraordinary insignificance.

Somewhere in deep space amid galaxies beating with heartless precision, flowers and children grow. A little girl I recently crossed paths with randomly handed me a flower and brightened the world with her significant smile. I set the bloom afloat in a pot of reflective rainwater and discovered secrets of the cosmos collecting in there.

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Somewhere The Journey Begins

"Somewhere a journey begins at the end of the worldly existence we know. Somewhere a path stretches over the stars, and rivers of memories flow. Somewhere a silence is heard far away and the brightness of day fills the night, where the trials of life are resolved into peace when a soul finds its way to the light." - Author Unknown

The week ended at a funeral for the husband of a friend. Even after 58 years of marriage, he was her champion; she was his prize. He was a Mariner in the early days. She read from My Captain by Walt Whitman with the passion of Shakespeare's Juliet. Her grieving voice pieced together the words amid the broken brilliance of stained glass at the church. Her bare emotions left a mark on everyone there.

Earlier in the week, a mark of a different sort was left beside the sea.

Long ago Inukshuk were directional markers but now they are creative expressions along rock-filled beaches. Each stack of stones has a persona uniquely its own.

The structured boulders are art but also a means of wordless communication human-to-human. In some cases, they simply signify the hopefulness of a friendly gesture.

There were dozens of these statues lining the Crescent Beach shore when I captured only a few with my camera. People and pets took notice at the edge of the sea.

They looked like stone people (below) enjoying the view. But even they could be pushed to the sand and swept away in the tidal sea to fade into memory.

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Because the state of our planet is the most pressing issue of our time, link up and learn about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report.