tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81646460939551733062024-03-13T17:40:56.702+13:00Waters I Have KnownClaire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8164646093955173306.post-60664258071288377452014-02-03T21:47:00.001+13:002014-02-03T21:47:34.393+13:00The Soldier & The Poet <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">High on the peninsula hills directly opposite my house stands a lone soldier. A welcome part of my everyday landscape, I have wondered often about him and his untold story. In early 2009, a poem 'arrived', landing on the page as if the soldier had called it forth. As if he'd turned his face to my window and was listening. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">A month or two ago, my friend Elizabeth sent me a letter. "I'm not sure how to tell you this," she said, "but the soldier has written a reply to his poet."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I took this series of photographs today after hearing of his passing. . . A great tree has fallen. RIP, Seamus Heaney. You will live on through your words, your voice, your unique way of revealing the world - its beauty, complexity and mystery - to us. </span></span></div>
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Claire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8164646093955173306.post-70351374929641432832013-08-13T09:31:00.000+12:002013-08-13T09:32:55.828+12:00MIDWAY ISLAND | A film by Chris Jordan <div>
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"Midway Atoll is a collection of three small islands in the North Pacific, and one of the most remote places on earth. In many ways, this film could be shot in many places on the planet where we find tragedy and despair, but here- about halfway between the U.S. and Asia- on an island teeming with life and wonder, it is the proverbial canary in the coal mine.</div>
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Midway Atoll is located near the apex of what is being called the Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling soup of millions of tons of plastic pollution. In fact, much of this plastic can not be seen, but it can’t be avoided as it comes ashore on these pristine beaches and in the stomachs of the birds. The islands are literally covered with plastic garbage, illustrating on several levels the interconnectedness and interdependence of the systems on our finite planet.</div>
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The ironies are unmistakable- the first trans-atlantic cable was connected here on Midway; the scars from the Battle of Midway are unmistakable. Yet now, as a protected area, we can’t help but look at the role this island had in the past, and think about where we are today. This place, a historic moment in World War II, stands as a turning point that launched America’s economic dominance of the 20th Century. And so it is here, sitting halfway between the consumers of North America and the consumers of Asia, that we get to stop and consider some of the unintentional consequences of growth, and the responsibilities that we have for our planet. . . " <i>Chris Jordan</i> </div>
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<br />Claire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8164646093955173306.post-30483157754415011432013-05-17T11:58:00.000+12:002013-05-17T11:58:00.104+12:00THIS SEA, WHOSE GENTLY AWFUL STIRRINGS SEEM TO SPEAK OF SOME HIDDEN SOUL BENEATH. . . <br />
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I have just been introduced to the work of New York artist, <b>Ran Ortner</b> --- immensely powerful paintings. . .<br />
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<i>from the article</i> 'Water Water Everywhere' <i>by Ariane Conrad</i> -<br />
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<i>"Ran Ortner's work consists of paintings of the ocean on canvases that are as much as eight feet tall and thrty-two feet wide. They show no land, sky, boats, figures, or other reference points, merely what Herman Melville calls 'this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.' Viewers commonly experience strong emotions standing before his canvases. Some feel as though the paintings are not about the ocean at all, but are instead tapestries of our human condition. . . " </i><br />
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Ran Ortner writes<i>,</i> <i>"You do not mess with the ocean. It will pummel you and chew you up. It is devastatingly brutal and yet it can be luminous and delicate and tender. We clean our wounds here. . . "</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Again and again—in roots, in books, in rivers—this pattern repeats in nature: small things gather into larger things, which gather into larger things, which merge into one big thing. It’s a movement from the particular to the universal, as if the cosmos <i>wanted</i> everything ultimately to come together. In a book, stories, characters, all the consequences of betrayal and the possibilities of love converge—on a street corner, maybe, or an island—and something new is revealed. This is the art of the book. What had been many things becomes one thing, the layered geology of the human imagination, cut to bedrock truth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Just so, a river gathers small evidence from high in mountain streams and carries it along, always along. A salmon egg, a hemlock branch, and the smell of dying fish join with silt from the uplands and roots of sage, and here is a new story unrolling. Along goes the river, gathering stories until they all converge in the sea. And what story does the sea tell? The history of all those uplands, the stories of lives won and lost, and the blue mystery of the unity of all lives, the unity of all stories, which is the saga of onrushing life. . . " BASIA IRLAND</span></div>
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shares a series of photographs of melting and retreating glaciers from
northern Greenland, British Columbia and Iceland. I have just returned
from Chile, where glaciers are rapidly shrinking high in the Andes
Mountains. These glaciers provide an essential ecosystem service to
Chile through the provision and regulation of fresh water. Over the past
3 years, the country has experienced record drought – particularly in
the central regions where Chile’s enormously productive and economically
indispensable agriculture industry is based. Glacier and snow-melt
source the high Andes watershed, which feed the river systems that
eventually reach Chilean vineyards, fruit orchards and cereal crops. In
spite of the drought, water from these mountain glaciers has allowed
business to continue as usual.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This past week, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) visited <a href="http://www.fauna-flora.org/initiatives/anglo-american-partnership/" target="_blank" title="Anglo American is one of FFI's corporate partners"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Anglo American</span></a>’s
Los Bronces copper mine where ore is extracted between 3,000 and 4,500
metres above sea level (above 10,000 feet). This is one of the world’s
largest and highest grade copper ore bodies. It is also one of the
highest mines in the world. Copper has been mined here for 200 years and
there is sufficient copper to continue mining for at least another 200
years. The ore body extends deep into the mountains, exposing
periodically where glaciers have cut the rock away.</span></div>
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and El Plomo valleys. The mine has completely altered the San Francisco
watershed – with a huge stoped hole, massive waste rock dumps, and an
old tailings dam. The El Plomo valley has been carefully explored and
holds a water storage facility for the operation, while the Dolores
valley lies in between, its fate uncertain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The three valleys support a high alpine wetland system that provides
water to Santiago and to vineyards and farming communities in the
surrounding countryside. Sophisticated water management systems have
been created to divert water around the mine to ensure that water from
San Francisco valley can flow downstream uncontaminated by mining. The
water needed for mining operations is pumped from the northern Aconcagua
Basin (such romantic and dramatic connotations as Aconcagua is the
highest mountain in South America). Fresh water is used in the
copper-rich slurry that is piped 56 km to a concentrator and tailings
facility located 3,500 m below on the plains north of Santiago. A water
circulation process at these facilities maintains a neutral water
balance and water is kept out of the mine pit. Through this water
management system clean and “dirty” water are not mixed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Mining operations at Los Bronces have essentially destroyed the
functioning of the San Francisco watershed. Activities in the Dolores
and El Plomo valleys have, however, been specifically designed to avoid
disruption to the natural ecosystem function of these valleys. To this
effect, pipelines have been constructed using design and technology to
determine routes that avoid negatively impacting wetlands and enable
natural sea pitch into ground water.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">One of the most important sustainable water management measures at
the mine has been to develop a greater understanding of the role that
glaciers play as a source of water for the wetlands, which then gently
feed water into the rivers. The inconspicuous and fragile alpine
wetlands act as a sponge, and although they are not highly biodiverse
they have high endemism and are critical habitats for the ecosystem
services they provide. During the summer months, glaciers bleed water
into the wetlands providing a constant supply of water to quench the
demand of downstream users. During drought, the glaciers act as a water
store, maintaining water availability for millions of users.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">For a mining operation, glaciers are dangerous and unpredictable
impediments to development. Both grey and white glaciers overlie Los
Bronces and the surrounding ore bodies which hold hugely valuable
resources. Chilean legislation currently prohibits the destruction of
glaciers – for good ecological and biophysical reasons! Even the
glaciers lying in the path of large mining operations are protected.
However, studies are now underway to better understand and predict
future glacier dynamics in the mountain-scapes surrounding Los Bronces.
Will mining have access to the land uncovered as glaciers retreat? What
will happen to the ecological value of glaciers and the ecosystem
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We worked with Anglo American this week to identify their
dependencies and impacts on ecosystem services. Together, we recognised
the extraordinary importance of water to the company and to all other
water users in the region. We were able to recognize along the entire
watershed profile the key habitats and species whose interaction with
water provisioning and regulating services demanded their careful
management and protection. We identified stakeholders who are
co-dependent on their resources and began to understand some of the
risks associated with the company’s operations and their role in the
landscape. Thinking 20, 50, even 100 years down the track, we asked the
questions which are hard to face: where will their water come from; what
will the impacts of a changing environment be; and how might their
licenses to operate, abstract water and harvest natural assets be
constrained?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We did not get to any final answers, but we did, however, realise
that solutions for the sustainability of both business and natural
resources are entirely interdependent – and that we need to think about
the unthinkable in order to do the necessary.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.angloamerican.com/business/copper/overview" target="_blank" title="Anglo American's Copper site"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Anglo American – Copper</span></a>
have embraced an ecosystem services approach. The Chilean Government is
in the middle of a process to integrate ecosystem services into their
legislation. They now demand those impacting the environment to
compensate their actions through <a href="http://bbop.forest-trends.org/pages/biodiversity_offsets" target="_blank" title="BBOP site"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">biodiversity offsets</span></a>.
For a company, the push-pull tension between regulatory compliance and
global best practice performance is generally won by compliance; often
to a national rather than global standard. This is extremely
disappointing. In Chile, I think we might finally have a context where
regulation is catching up and will now lead best practice for the
management of biodiversity and ecosystem services."</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"To commemorate the centenary of Captain Scott's ill-fated journey to the South Pole, the Southern Sinfonia is presenting the world premiere of <i>The Journey Home</i>. Charmian Smith talks to composer Prof John Drummond.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Captain Robert Falcon Scott's last landfall in 1910 before sailing to the Antarctic was Port Chalmers, where there is a memorial, and the news of his team's death came ashore at Oamaru in 1913.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">John Drummond has written an oratorio to mark the anniversaries.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Southern Sinfonia will perform his <i>The Journey Home</i> on September 8.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The idea started when Prof Drummond received a text developed from Scott's journal by librettist and opera historian Jeremy Commons about four years ago. He suggested setting it for baritone and piano, but Prof Drummond thought a significant event like this might need something else.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">He looked at poems about the Antarctic by New Zealand poets who had been there and found evocative works by Claire Beynon, Chris Orsman and Bill Manhire.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I thought it would be nice to do this for a series of soloists - a baritone who could sing Scott's journal, a soprano and tenor who could do the poems.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Then I thought, let's have an orchestra. Then I thought if we are going to go that far, why don't we add a choir. Make it a proper cantata or oratorio." He planned to add texts from the Latin requiem mass, but Commons persuaded him Scott wasn't a Catholic so he found appropriate texts in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"It finished up with quite a lot of text. Jeremy's text covered the whole of the expedition from the beginnings, but the more I looked at it, the more I felt the interesting part of the story was the last part, which happened 100 years ago this year," Prof Drummond says.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"When Scott realises he isn't the first to reach the South Pole but the second, because Amundsen had beaten him by five weeks or so, that must have been a very disappointing and traumatic moment for him. The journey home from the pole and the sense he hadn't achieved what he wanted to achieve. That became something I wanted to explore."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Journey Home</i> starts with Scott and his party's disappointment and the prospect of the journey ahead.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">They think it will be a journey back to his base camp and then home to England, but as the weather grew worse and then he and his companions struggled, it became a journey to a different home, one we are all going to in the end, a journey to the home of death in the Antarctic, Prof Drummond says.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I wanted to explore his feelings throughout that experience, but not make it a totally gloomy and tragic business, because I don't think it's necessarily like that. I think what those texts, the Common Prayer texts are trying to do, is to remind us there are things beyond life; there are things beyond this world and there is a spiritual dimension. I want to tap into that. I suppose what I'd like people to feel at the end is an awareness of the tragedy of it all, but I don't want everyone to end up weeping.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"The journey is about contact with things eternal, really, and I think that's one of the things music can do quite well because it can go beyond words and speak directly of other things to us."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Scott made mistakes in his planning for the expedition and the weather was unexpectedly bad, with blizzards and extremely low temperatures.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">However, Prof Drummond suggests that another factor making the return impossible might have been Scott's state of mind, his disappointment at having not been the first to the pole.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"It's like getting the silver medal - yes, you are really pleased to have done it, but you had hoped to get the gold. Your state of mind is bound to be slightly different in those circumstances."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">He particularly enjoyed setting the poems - there's a wonderful one by Bill Manhire, <i>The Goddess Hypothermia</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"He's written it like the Goddess Hypothermia has come to embrace me. It's a very clever little poem because it's got this amorous flavour to it but nonetheless, underneath, you know it's something very dangerous. I love that poem and really enjoyed having the opportunity to set that."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A more difficult piece to set was the famous quotation by Captain Oates.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Everyone knows he said 'I'm just going out and may be some time', and it's one of those lines people use in other circumstances, so trying to set that without it becoming funny just because of the associations was very interesting. I had to have quite a few goes at that. I hope it works in the context."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There's a poignant passage in Scott's journal, when he realises he won't see his son again, that Prof Drummond set as an aria for the baritone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Scott's son was Peter Scott, who was a great naturalist in the UK, and the song talks about how he hopes his son will grow up to love nature. Having met Peter Scott many years ago - he was a friend of my sister's - I felt it was a really nice poem to set because that is what did happen."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Prof Drummond says he writes music he wants people to enjoy listening to and musicians will enjoy performing, which means they will communicate well with the audience."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">My writer friend </span><b><a href="http://landryredux.blogspot.co.nz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">SUSAN LANDRY</span></a></b> (Portland, MAINE, USA) wrote the following exquisite and piercing piece in response to a New York Times article --- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">"I have
remained obsessed with the news about the discovery of a fresh-water lake
beneath the ice at Vostok station, in Antarctica. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><b>RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS BORE INTO ANCIENT</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ANTARCTIC LAKE</b></span></div>
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discovery of this lake is comparable with the first flight into space.’ There
have been much–disputed hints that life might still exist there. New York Times
2/08/12)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">We live in a
pale globe, haloed in the light of underwater moons. Like the blood of a
medusa, we are diaphanous; woven of silken threads, spun from microbial skeins,
soft as smoke. The skin of our world glows overhead, a membrane holding in
fluid and song. We have words; not to say out loud, just to look at. We press
them into shapes or memories and release them. The word called blue can be sky
or long afternoons. Brown can be sand pebbles or an empty heart. Like birds,
blue and brown can soar and glide. They can spin like star motes or flatten,
like feathers in a storm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">We dance. The
space between us is sacred. The space around us is eternity. We never ask
questions. We do not begin or end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">We are
crying. There is too much noise, a dark thrum, like music that is wrong, like
music with sharp edges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We are afraid
to look: the words break like black ice; splinters of red pierce the grey green
sky. Our eyes hurt; we</span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
want to shut them, lock them tight as fossils. Our ears are curling up, like
seashells. Words like drill or science or discovery pulse through the water
like words for pain. We are dying."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Susan blogs</span> <b><a href="http://landryredux.blogspot.co.nz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">here</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">.</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Claire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8164646093955173306.post-7588153856714143592012-08-25T17:26:00.002+12:002012-09-07T06:18:49.299+12:00IT IS ALL ONE WATER<br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">‘It is all one water – a finger in a tide pool brings us all together’ </span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Water, in its many forms and expressions, has been an integral feature of my work for the past three decades - as raindrop and storm, puddle, waterfall, river, ocean, sea ice and glacier. Aside from painting and drawing and creating short narrative films, I fold paper boats - at last count my flotilla numbered around 1600. Since I first began making them in 2007, these boats have taken on a life and presence all their own. You can read their story <a href="http://watersihaveknown.blogspot.co.nz/p/boats-boats-more-boats.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">HERE</span></b></a>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Concern about the declining health of our world's waterways prompted me to invite</span> members of the blogging community to participate in a project titled <i><b>Waters I Have Known. </b></i><span class="Apple-style-span">(<b><a href="http://icelines.blogspot.co.nz/2010/10/invitation-from-me-and-sea.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">http://icelines.blogspot.co.nz/2010/10/invitation-from-me-and-sea.html</span></a></b>). </span>My wish was to create an open, online studio, a space where I could post images of work-in-process, share web links, invite questions, ideas and discussion. This site is the result. </div>
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Waters I Have Known</span></b></i> documents recent water-related projects. Some have been solo endeavors - the majority have had a collaborative element to them. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Early paintings in the <span style="color: #666666;"><i><b>Waters I Have Known</b></i></span> series were a response to the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. A stream of lively debate around the power, wonder and fragility of our world’s oceans was already under way when I suggested to readers we take our discussion further and contemplate the internet as an ocean of a different kind. Moved by the range and richness of texts gifted in response, I incorporated their words in several <a href="http://watersihaveknown.blogspot.co.nz/p/deepwater-horizon-g-ulf-series.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><i>G ULF </i>paintings</span></b></a>, including an 'ocean of words’ titled <b><i><a href="http://watersihaveknown.blogspot.co.nz/2010/10/contributions-from-blogging-community.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Standing In The Heart</span></a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">.</span></b> These texts were also worked into a collaborative poem* that became the narration for a 2011 climate change film<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> Love The Waters.</span></b></i> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> the song of a vast adventure</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> of the sea is the roar of our planet. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> Salt. Spray. Ice. Sand.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> The oceans are hoarders </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> of holy mysteries, generous </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> energy and gorgeousness; life</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> of it; ah, its drama! Its <i>secrecy</i>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> The way it carries the past, future</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> Dream of the sea and from its edge</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> gaze out to the pencil-thin line</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> of the horizon where sky and water</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> How it murmurs. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">One of the things that struck me during this web-based process was the generosity with which these men and women – most of whom have never met – responded to my call. A community comprising writers, artists, scientists, musicians, a police detective and a nun, they hail from places as far-flung as Ireland, Australia, USA, Germany, the UK, South Africa, Italy and Tasmania. Without exception, they offered up their prose and poems as gifts – no strings attached. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There is a potency and intimacy peculiar to web-based communities that overwrites conventionally-perceived limitations such as age, political bias, ethnicity, <i>kronos</i> time and measurable space. The web is a mighty equalizer – like the ocean, it wraps us around, drawing our continents together. We take our place around the virtual table and at the press of a key, enter worlds we might ordinarily not have access to, with people we might ordinarily never meet. Before we know it we’re engaging in a depth of communication that has all the elements of privileged encounter and sacred space. If water is the medium of the unconscious, might we consider the web its metaphorical equivalent?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">During these times of crisis and accelerated change, I am drawn ever more to poetry, music and the moving image as powerful communication tools within our global arena. It seems to me that as our world’s clamor and confusion increases, so listening and stillness are being recognized as vital agents for peace, advocacy and transformation. We are being invited to find new ways of communicating that transcend the all-too-familiar notes of violence, fear and separatism and express instead as a 'protest of poetry and pause.’</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">*<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"> C</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">ollaborative poem by </span><b><a href="http://www.icelines.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Claire Beynon</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (NZ), </span><b><a href="http://marylinnmlkelly.blogspot.co.nz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Marylinn Kelly</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (USA), </span><b><a href="http://premium-t.blogspot.co.nz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Therese Clear</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (USA), </span><b><a href="http://cadence56.blogspot.co.nz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Pamela Morrison</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (NZ), </span><b><a href="http://sixthinline.blogspot.co.nz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Elisabeth Hanscombe</span></a> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">(AUS), </span><b><a href="http://andbottlewasher.blogspot.co.nz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Kay McKenzie-Cooke</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (NZ) &</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"> </span><b><a href="http://thedishwasherstears.wordpress.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Scott Odom</span></a> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">(USA).</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Porcelain sculpture by </span><b><a href="http://www.christinabryer.com/assets/content-page.php?id=home"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Christina Bryer</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> (SA). </span></span></span></span><br />
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"The ocean touches nearly every aspect of our lives - making it essential to the economic, social and ecological well-being of everyone, everywhere.<br />
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How do we measure the health of the ocean? The Ocean Health Index is a new, comprehensive measure of the ocean's overall condition - one that treats people and nature as integrated parts of a healthy system. Here begins a journey to sustainably manage our relationship with Earth's greatest resource. . . "<br />
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<i>Follow this link to the</i> <a href="http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">OCEAN HEALTH INDEX</span></b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">--- http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/</span></a><br />
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Claire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8164646093955173306.post-60920144894614344632012-08-08T17:04:00.000+12:002012-08-25T16:36:39.180+12:00Two quotes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>Anyone who can solve the problems of water, will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"><b>John F. Kennedy</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: inherit;"><b>Benjamin Franklin.</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.dianuke.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ryuichi-Sakamoto2.jpg" style="color: #3b5998; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-10802" height="158" src="http://www.dianuke.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ryuichi-Sakamoto2-300x225.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;" title="Ryuichi Sakamoto2" width="210" /></a>Ryuichi Sakamoto is one of the most famous Japanese music composers and pianist. He formed Yellow Magic Orchestra from 1978 and won an Oscar in 1988 for best original score for the music in “The Last Emperor”. In 2009, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France’s Ministry of Culture for his musical contributions. In 2010, he received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in Japan.</div>
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We had recently started a signature campaign recently in support of the people in Japan struggling against the nuclear re-start in Oi .</div>
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We have received a note of thanks and solidarity from Sakamoto Ryuichi, one of the best and most famous music composers in Japan. He has been actively involved in various projects to provide assistance to survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake.</div>
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<em style="font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Earlier on DiaNuke.org, we had re-published his essay on Fukushima and the struggle for a nuclear-free world:<strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #003366; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dianuke.org/fukushima-ryuichi-sakamoto/" rel="bookmark" style="color: #3b5998; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Permanent Link to Our raised voice, our music is the way to move beyond Fukushima: Ryuichi Sakamoto"><span style="color: #003366; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Our raised voice, our music is the way to move beyond Fukushima</span></a></span></strong></em></div>
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We are grateful to our friend Ayako Oishi for communicating Indian people’s solidarity to Mr. Sakamoto, in response to which he has sent this message.</div>
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Please read below Ryuichi Sakamoto’s message to India, in English and Japanese:</div>
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親愛なるインドのみなさま,</div>
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まずはじめに、2011年3月11日起きた大災害に際し、</div>
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みなさまから大きなサポートをいただいたことに心から感謝を申し上げます。</div>
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ご記憶いただいていると思いますが、</div>
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東北地方に起きた大きな地震と津波が 、チェルノブイリ事故以来となる</div>
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人類史上最悪の原発事故を引き起こしました。</div>
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日本政府は2011年12月に事故の収束を宣言しましたが、</div>
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1年経ったいまでも、実際に福島原子力第一発電所からは放射能が漏れつづけています。</div>
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大変に悲しく心が痛みますが、日本には人が住むことのできない大地が出来てしまいました。</div>
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そしていまだに10万人もの人々が家を離れ避難を余儀なくされています。</div>
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今日は、原子力発電所と原子力全般についてわたしの考えをお伝えしたいと思います。</div>
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「アウシュヴィッツ以後、詩を書くことは野蛮である」とアドルノは言いました。</div>
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ぼくははこう言い替えたい、「フクシマのあとに声を発しないことは野蛮である」と。</div>
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日本は三度被爆しました。</div>
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ヒロシマ、ナガサキ、そしてフクシマ。</div>
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ヒロシマの原爆記念碑には</div>
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「安らかに眠って下さい 過ちは繰返しませぬから」と刻まれていますが、</div>
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私たちの国は原子力の平和利用という幻想によって、再び過ちを犯してしまいました。</div>
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これでは原爆によって亡くなった方たち、</div>
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その放射能によって発病し亡くなった何十万の人々に、</div>
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言い訳のしようがありません。</div>
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人類史上最悪の事故によって「原子力の平和利用」という夢から覚めた私たちに今できることは、</div>
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それが兵器であろうと発電のためであろうと、人類は核と共存できないことを世界に示すことです。</div>
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Dear Friends in India,</div>
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First of all, I would like to personally thank all of you for your sympathies and supports for victims of Japan’s 311 disaster.</div>
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As you may remember, the huge earthquake and tsunami that hit the northern Japan area caused the worst nuclear disaster in human history since the Chernobyl accident.</div>
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The Japanese government declared an end to the world’s worst nuclear crisis in December 2011. However, the fact is, the leakage of radioactive material from the Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Plant is on going even now, after a year has passed. It is extremely sad and painful to admit that in Japan, we now have land where no one will ever be able to live. At least 100,000 people remain displaced and not able to return their homes.</div>
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Adorno said “Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”</div>
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I would like to revise it and say, “Keeping silent after Fukushima is barbaric.”</div>
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Japan has been irradiated 3 times: Hiroshima, Nagasaki then Fukushima.</div>
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Engraved on the memorial cenotaph in Hiroshima is an epitaph:</div>
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No excuse can be made for those tens of thousands of people who were lost to the atomic bombing and the subsequent radiation poisoning.</div>
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Now that the worst accident in history has awoken us from our deluded slumber to “use nuclear energy peacefully,” the next step is to prove to the world that people and nukes cannot coexist, whether it is for weapons or electricity.</div>
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<b>What the Water Knows</b><br />
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What the mouth sings, the soul must learn to forgive.<br />
A rat’s as moral as a monk in the eyes of the real world.<br />
Still, the heart is a river<br />
pouring from itself, a river that cannot be crossed.<br />
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It opens on a bay<br />
and turns back upon itself as the tide comes in,<br />
it carries the cry of the loon and the salts<br />
of the unutterably human.<br />
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A distant eagle enters the mouth of a river<br />
salmon no longer run and his wide wings glide<br />
upstream until he disappears<br />
into the nothing from which he came. Only the thought remains.<br />
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Lacking the eagle’s cunning or the wisdom of the sparrow,<br />
where shall I turn, drowning in sorrow?<br />
Who will know what the trees know, the spidery patience<br />
of young maple or what the willows confess?<br />
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Let me be water. The heart pours out in waves.<br />
Listen to what the water says.<br />
Wind, be a friend.<br />
There’s nothing I couldn’t forgive.<br />
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Claire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8164646093955173306.post-88859245434499241612011-06-17T12:23:00.001+12:002012-09-02T07:44:36.915+12:00Fukushima - let us speak daily gratitude to & for our world's waters <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Fukushima: 'Biggest Industrial Catastrophe In History'</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. . . '"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">To continue reading this article, click on this link - - - <b><a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail160611.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail160611.htm</span></a></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">W</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">hen one part of our global body - oceanic or otherwise - is hurt, every of us are impacted. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I am reminded again of <b>Masaru Emoto</b>'s plea to us all to speak gratitude to and for our world's waters each and every day </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">- as we shower, drink, walk by the sea, refresh the water on our bird tables, water our plants, experience cool dew on bare feet, walk in the rain. . . </span><br />
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<br />Claire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8164646093955173306.post-67229151518418847352011-06-15T09:32:00.002+12:002012-08-26T18:04:16.792+12:00Lynne McTaggart on Water<br />
Lynne McTaggart describes research which suggests that water is one medium of this coherent communication system especially in living plants and animals:<br />
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"This would mean that water is like a tape recorder, imprinting and carrying information whether the original molecule is still there or not. The shaking of the containers, as is done in homeopathy, appears to act as a method of speeding up this process. So vital is water to the transmission of energy and information that Benveniste's own studies actually demonstrate that molecular signals cannot be transmitted in the body unless you do so in the medium of water. In Japan, a physicist called Kunio Yasue of the Research Institute for Information and Science, Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, also found that water molecules have some role to play in organizing discordant energy into coherent photons - a process called 'superradiance'.This suggests that water, as the natural medium of all cells, acts as the essential conductor of a molecule's signature frequency in all biological processes and that water molecules organize themselves to form a pattern on which can be imprinted wave information. If Benveniste is right, water not only sends the signal but also amplifies it."<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">". . . I've been following with interest and delight your progress with the boats, and not infrequently find myself musing on the project's many meanings. The images you've given us on the blog -- of the boats in ones and twos, arrayed in rank and file, in a nested circle -- have been gorgeously suggestive. I have grown fond of these small paper barques, their grace, their simplicity, their innocence. I'm charmed by the picture of them clamped with clothespins for gluing -- 'watching' them being made like that resonates through the word <i>craft</i>, as boat, as process, as workmanship.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Like your boats, we too are vessels, noble in our aspirations, but a bit comic as well when we propose our inviolability against the world, or imagine ourselves as <i>self</i> somehow ending at our skin. Our vulnerability belies such a claim. (Indeed, despite its balletic grandeur, there is something existentially disquieting about the film in this regard, a sense of each boat drifting in its own isolation, at the whim of the currents. To end up belly up under the ice is a grim fate.) It is not as separate vessels, but together, as a collective, united, ascending soul, that the boats achieve their highest nobility. . . and become something nearly indomitable. " <i><a href="http://www.artanddocument.blogspot.com/"><b style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Timothy Cahill</span></b></a></i></span></div>
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</span>Claire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8164646093955173306.post-46386060637227744212011-03-27T06:42:00.001+13:002011-03-27T06:42:43.046+13:00What is soft is strong<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"><br />
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