I sat in the garden. Crying for the earth. Giving her my tears. Small amount of water it was, but I want to give the mother all the love I can now. I noticed there was still some water left in a stone birdbath. The little bird statues perched on the rims seemed very content. I thought of the real birds. All the animals being affected by so many varied actions. Just then, these beautiful, I think they were little robins appeared flying round the browning plants. They were playing with each other. Dancing, circling and spiraling in the air. One landed on a branch just by me. He looked at me.
I heard "watch" He then poked his beak just slightly in the water left in the birdbath. His movement made the water ripple out in circles. He looked at me, I heard, "everything has a ripple effect" I laughed and rolled my eyes at the bird, "Sure, bird, I know this, give me something new" He flew just by my left shoulder, I heard "Don't forget. Do not forget what you learned from the dolphins. Live. Play. Love. In spite of, In the face of FEAR" Images of one certain swim with them flowed into my head. The bird flew away.
I sat on the earth, stunned. I had forgotten. In a way, their whole message of the dolphins in particular, and certainly one specific swim. The swims with the dolphins are like dreams, once you are back on shore you are already starting to loose grasp of all you saw and learned in there. Asking yourself, "did that really happen?" Starting to doubt all the telepathic communication. Doubting all the visions and understandings you received.
This specific swim was at Honaunau Bay, City of Refuge. There were many people in the bay that day. The dolphins were trying to go down into a rest cycle. For those who don't know, dolphins are fully conscious breathers and so they never go fully to sleep, but will shut down sides of their brains one hemisphere at a time to go into rest cycles. They continue to swim. At a steady slow pace, diving down together, and then rising to breathe, all as one. Some members of the pod will stay fully awake and keep their sonars on to act as look outs for the rest of the pod. This day, the dolphins, it seemed, were giving the tourists a bit of a show before interring fully into rest mode. The continued to slowly dance with each other, rubbing bodies in sweet socializing displays. The tourists followed closely behind, too close, if you ask me. This always bothered me, made me sad, give them space! But the dolphins always assured me, it was okay, they understood how exciting it was for the people. This was their "duty" here. They would play a bit more and then do their best to make sure every one in the pod had enough rest.
I was sad this day, scared for the state of our world. Unconscious humans acting like zombie dolphin chasers, Radiation in the water, corrupt governments, sharks, aliens....lions and tigers and bears... I asked the dolphins, are you ever scared? At the state of it ALL?
One mother with her youth came over. The young male was about 8months to a year old. He had a cookiecutter shark wound on his side. The dolphins feed at the same depth as this type of small dogfish shark, the cookiecutter is called that because it likes to take circle bites, like a cookie cutter out of larger animals. Many of the dolphins have these marks. Some youths die from them. The mother and the youth looked at me, "Yes, we understand fear" They flashed to me pictures of the depths they go to when they feed or travel. Then they slowly dove back down to the rest of the pod. They circled with each other, danced. Rubbed bodies and nuzzled noses. "But, Live. Play. Love. In spite of, In the face of FEAR." I know I already knew this, we all hear this mantra or some form of it these days, but to see the dolphins exhibit this energy after showing me the depths of the blue they can go to, the lesson hit levels of my heart and mind like never before. Live. Play, Love. In the FACE of fear. Then they swam off, it was now time for their rest.
I did forget this day, until the little bird reminded me. I am sure that many of my memories with the dolphins are off floating somewhere, I could get sad, or I could trust that everything is where it needs to be.
It is a tight rope act. Staying balanced with the feeling body. I want to give credence to the importance of feeling the more "negative" (fear, worry, sadness, rage) emotions into a place of integration. But I can get stuck there. It is important, it is the ultimate human mission to find PLAY in the face of FEAR
I've been so depressed this week by the clear blue skies and sun. But it is a beautiful day, no matter how bizarre it is, so be with it and appreciate it. It's okay to cry, to feel "blue" But what is "blue", is for the individual to decided what needs to be "true"
"To learn the origins of the word, experts looked back through the millennia to the language of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, an ancient culture rooted in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. These people used the word bhle- to describe something that was light-colored. Some scholars suspect bhle- may have even meant “yellow.”
belyi – Russian for white
blawr – Welsh for gray
blanc – French for white or blank
blavo – Old Spanish for yellowish-gray
An interesting trivia tidbit about the color blue is that many languages don’t use separate words for blue and green. Koreans, for instance, use the word pureu-da to describe both colors. Likewise the Thai word khiaw usually means green but can represent blue when describing the sky or the ocean."
I heard "watch" He then poked his beak just slightly in the water left in the birdbath. His movement made the water ripple out in circles. He looked at me, I heard, "everything has a ripple effect" I laughed and rolled my eyes at the bird, "Sure, bird, I know this, give me something new" He flew just by my left shoulder, I heard "Don't forget. Do not forget what you learned from the dolphins. Live. Play. Love. In spite of, In the face of FEAR" Images of one certain swim with them flowed into my head. The bird flew away.
I sat on the earth, stunned. I had forgotten. In a way, their whole message of the dolphins in particular, and certainly one specific swim. The swims with the dolphins are like dreams, once you are back on shore you are already starting to loose grasp of all you saw and learned in there. Asking yourself, "did that really happen?" Starting to doubt all the telepathic communication. Doubting all the visions and understandings you received.
This specific swim was at Honaunau Bay, City of Refuge. There were many people in the bay that day. The dolphins were trying to go down into a rest cycle. For those who don't know, dolphins are fully conscious breathers and so they never go fully to sleep, but will shut down sides of their brains one hemisphere at a time to go into rest cycles. They continue to swim. At a steady slow pace, diving down together, and then rising to breathe, all as one. Some members of the pod will stay fully awake and keep their sonars on to act as look outs for the rest of the pod. This day, the dolphins, it seemed, were giving the tourists a bit of a show before interring fully into rest mode. The continued to slowly dance with each other, rubbing bodies in sweet socializing displays. The tourists followed closely behind, too close, if you ask me. This always bothered me, made me sad, give them space! But the dolphins always assured me, it was okay, they understood how exciting it was for the people. This was their "duty" here. They would play a bit more and then do their best to make sure every one in the pod had enough rest.
I was sad this day, scared for the state of our world. Unconscious humans acting like zombie dolphin chasers, Radiation in the water, corrupt governments, sharks, aliens....lions and tigers and bears... I asked the dolphins, are you ever scared? At the state of it ALL?
One mother with her youth came over. The young male was about 8months to a year old. He had a cookiecutter shark wound on his side. The dolphins feed at the same depth as this type of small dogfish shark, the cookiecutter is called that because it likes to take circle bites, like a cookie cutter out of larger animals. Many of the dolphins have these marks. Some youths die from them. The mother and the youth looked at me, "Yes, we understand fear" They flashed to me pictures of the depths they go to when they feed or travel. Then they slowly dove back down to the rest of the pod. They circled with each other, danced. Rubbed bodies and nuzzled noses. "But, Live. Play. Love. In spite of, In the face of FEAR." I know I already knew this, we all hear this mantra or some form of it these days, but to see the dolphins exhibit this energy after showing me the depths of the blue they can go to, the lesson hit levels of my heart and mind like never before. Live. Play, Love. In the FACE of fear. Then they swam off, it was now time for their rest.
I did forget this day, until the little bird reminded me. I am sure that many of my memories with the dolphins are off floating somewhere, I could get sad, or I could trust that everything is where it needs to be.
It is a tight rope act. Staying balanced with the feeling body. I want to give credence to the importance of feeling the more "negative" (fear, worry, sadness, rage) emotions into a place of integration. But I can get stuck there. It is important, it is the ultimate human mission to find PLAY in the face of FEAR
I've been so depressed this week by the clear blue skies and sun. But it is a beautiful day, no matter how bizarre it is, so be with it and appreciate it. It's okay to cry, to feel "blue" But what is "blue", is for the individual to decided what needs to be "true"
Origin of the Word: Blue
by"To learn the origins of the word, experts looked back through the millennia to the language of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, an ancient culture rooted in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. These people used the word bhle- to describe something that was light-colored. Some scholars suspect bhle- may have even meant “yellow.”
belyi – Russian for white
blawr – Welsh for gray
blanc – French for white or blank
blavo – Old Spanish for yellowish-gray
An interesting trivia tidbit about the color blue is that many languages don’t use separate words for blue and green. Koreans, for instance, use the word pureu-da to describe both colors. Likewise the Thai word khiaw usually means green but can represent blue when describing the sky or the ocean."
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