fish

swimming the other week now it was - normally all the fish - just going about their business - swimming - feeding - chilling - doing whatever  fish do - but this one fish started to come for me - like - it's only a fish and all - but it was coming for me - me this comparatively big creature - but size didn't seem to matter - it had something to convey - it freaked me out - I'd flap my foot to keep it away - or wave my hand - all slow motion in it's fluid water world - kept it away for a second - before it relaunched itself towards me - I started swimming to shore - looking over my shoulder - still coming it was - like some kind of super awake being - a message for me - for us - for humankind - or just to nibble on me - but that seemed so not written on it's face - it's little fish face - all bursting with an urgency - that penetrated - beyond any layer of delusional superiority I may have held - that humans are greater than fish - hit me right in my core  - maybe that was the message - though so felt like there was something more

SURFRIDER FOUNDATION - how important's water?

sepia squal

Saturday afternoon

surfin' rhythms

"if water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind"

Chuang Tzu

from a place

 where time slows

 to a pace

 beyond imagination

 riding waves is the 

perfect way 

to dance

 with the rhythms

of 

blues and whites

which never cease 

to amaze

and blend

 into a harmony 

of one.

Mark S

an idea for change

ready for a change?

slow yourself down, and see so much more

Bells Beach '81 - classic - huge swell

shadow couple

obvious?

This we know: the Earth does not

belong to man, man belongs to the

Earth. All things are connected like the

blood that unites us all. Man did not

weave the web of life, he is merely

a strand in it. Whatever he does to

the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

eat nothing, just gaze at the sun instead

this one went to a new home today

lizard spider II

spider munch

missed the green flash the other day

that deep self

At the psychic level [of transpersonal development], a person might temporarily dissolve the separate-selfsense (the ego...) and find an identity with the entire gross or sensorimotor world--so-called nature mysticism. You are on a nice nature walk, relaxed and expansive in your awareness, and you look at a beautiful mountain, and wham!--suddenly there is no looker, just the mountain--and you are the mountain. You are not in here looking at the mountain out there. There is just the mountain, and it seems to see itself, or you seem to be seeing it from within. The mountain is closer to you than your own skin. ... You are a "nature mystic." ... [In regard to this higher, transpersonal self] I am a big fan of the [ecopsychologists]. They have an important message for the modern world: to find that deep Self that embraces all of nature, and thus to treat nature with the same reverence you would extend to your own being.

Ken Wilber, Brief History of Everything, p 202

BONIN BLUE