Thoughts while walking the beach...

Thank you for sharing, Bill.  Beautiful in its depth of emotion and sadness. 

I hate to have to say this, but I believe that when all is said and done, no laws will have been broken.  Or should I say, no laws of this country... natural law has been broken, and is paying us back.  BP did what nearly every single large company in this country, and perhaps on this planet is doing - abiding by the lame and meager laws in the cheapest way possible, even if they know that a safer way is available.  Why walk a mile, when you said I only needed to walk an inch?  The question is not what singular bad company allowed this atrocity to happen, but which company finally got caught doing what all of them have been doing for years.  It could have easily been any other oil company drilling anywhere.  By the way, I'm pretty sure if you looked at any other industry where safety is an issue, most companies would be hovering around the hairy edge of public health as well. 

I didn't mean to take away from your creative work, Bill.  Much creativity comes from our deepest emotions. 

Much love and light,

Kathy

Humanity is.  We consume and the BP's of the world do what they do to serve the consumer's veracious appetite.  We vindicate BP's behavior by not changing how we live, what we consume, what we drive or peddle, etc.  The BP's of the world are like the zits that appear on the face of humanity when humanity's hygiene has taken a turn for the worst.

I watched a documentary on Sundance channel called End of the Line.  It was a dire look at how much we have exhausted life from the oceans, overfishing until we have depleted resources 80 to 90%.  That kind of tenacious buzzsaw farming of resources requires a market, and the market is us as a species.

We always had the power to effect change, but we keep looking outside of ourselves, to the big corporations primarily, for that change to come while we ourselves collectively, as an out of control species, do little to nothing to effect that change ourselves.  It is we who always had and have the power to effect that change.  If there is no market, there is no corporate machine to serve no market.

It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out.  Will we collectively do something amazing as a species, just short of our destruction, or will we have to have our numbers reduced dramatically by the natural result of our being out of control, and then the few remaining survivors evolve to something better, with a much more sober appreciation for the part we play in all of this...

Time will tell...

I got that too Billy, the deep personal sense of loss your poem expresses so well.  I was just taking the provisional opportunity to think out loud concerning my own struggle with better understanding our dualistic nature and strong tendency to project outside ourselves.  Insanity has become so natural to humanity that we can't even see it very well, and tend to struggle to hold on to what we are used to, even if it is the insanity we know.  It feels like pulling teeth, moving back towards a more sober and sane understanding of Reality, of who I am, and of what all of this really is....  LLP, Chris

Bill, I wasn't necessarily speaking to  you, either... but myself.  I keep having to remind myself that blaming wastes energy needed to fix the problem, AND that whenever we blame outside ourselves, we're just in denial about what's really happened and why.

I really am so sorry to take away from your sharing with my rant.  Not intentional.

Much love and light,

Kathy

I think the hokie pokie may be what we do on rest breaks in between eons of personal and collective self discovery, LOL