For this, first get a bathing suit with a pocket! Or a top! Then go to the Ocean or any body of water, a mountain lake, a stream, a rain-puddle. Any location, local, or anywhere around the world will do.

When you come across a piece of plastic, put it in your POCKET! (Just 1 piece of plastic fine.) When you come across a plastic bottle, take it away for Extra Points! (Just 1 plastic bottle fine)

This way, you will have put a piece of the OCEAN IN YOUR POCKET!


If there are trash cans, make sure they are for recycling. If they are not, the plastic or plastic bottle you will have picked up will go back into the OCEAN! Get it?

Suggestion--Leave a plastic bag, preferred, in your trunk or bike basket. Then drop off your found piece of the OCEAN in your neighborhood recycle bin!

All are welcome, and it's FREE to do this. You are on your own, and with the SEA.

Thank you.
CraniOcean

OCEANIC HEALTH/WELLNESS

"Recently," I was collecting sea shells on the beach here in South Florida and ended up with as many shells in one hand, as pieces of found plastic in the other hand! Yuck!

Excerpt from the Award Winning Book, TOUCH THE OCEAN: THE POWER OF OUR COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS
[978-0-9792805-0-4] $19.95

     "It was a crappy day and overcast. I went for a swim and there was too much Sargasso seaweed to move my arms. The sick brown seaweed was getting in my hair and under my legs and ankles. Mixed in the seaweed were plastic bottles and debris with alien bacterium and parasites that had traveled north through the Gulf Stream from the lower Caribbean Islands and South America. I stopped trying to swim. I pulled one bottle out, then another, I pulled and pulled. It was as if the ocean was puking it up. I’d never felt that feeling before when inside of her. I kept pulling and it was as if she kept puking. I took two full arm loads of the stuff across the beach and up to the thick plastic waste basket by the road. And I thought if one person could take away only one plastic bottle each time they visited the ocean it would be a different world.
It can take enormous attention and intention to not judge the ocean on such days, and rather, to see what can be done.

     I’m not writing as an environmentalist. My day job is to work with the inner environment, the inner pollution. The outer pollution will never stop until we address the inner pollution. Taking care of both are random acts of consideration and a kindness to us all. It can take hundreds of years for the ocean to break down a single plastic grocery bag, seconds to pick up one plastic bottle from the beach, a moment for the direction of a life to change, for better or worse. I’m pointing to what is to our advantage to do, what is life affirming, what is life sustaining, not to another dreary course of self improvement or even of land management.

     We are as wild as the ocean, as unpredictable, and in potential, as loving.

     What does the ocean grudge the sky?

      Will you join us on this journey? I consider each reader a guest on a visit to the story waters of this book, and I will do what I can to make your visit pleasant and comfortable, even humorous, for if nothing else, ocean, sky, even the weather can have a sense of humor! Of course, let us never forget the Source that animates all."

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J.Nemec © September, 2007
CraniOcean