Happy World Oceans Day!

“Ocean is a mighty harmonist.”

~William Wordsworth ~

Canada made the original proposal for World Oceans Day in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The day has been unofficially celebrated every June 8 since then, and, in 2008, the United Nations officially recognized it.

Today, I celebrate with a special pilgrimage to the sea of love energy, sacred space of dancing rainbow mystery, such a journey always brings me back to me… is there anything more deepening than listening to mother waters magnetizing us home… than breathing in the rhythms of waves… than flowing and ebbing with the tides under a waxing full moon…

As the First Peoples remind us and live… Mni Wiconi, Water is Life… Like the First Peoples and Sylvia Earle, I think of the ocean as the blue heart of the planet… It is the one true connection of all our relations – let us celebrate her everyday…

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves…  ~ Walt Whitman ~

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came… ~ John F Kennedy ~

The cure for anything is salt water… ~ Isak Dinesen ~