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Spring 2010, Issue 26
SEA LOVE AND LONGING –– a young man’s desire
OCEANOPHILIA –– Wallace J. NIchols’ neuroscience of emotion and the ocean
DANCING WITH A WHALE –– captivated by an orca, willingly
MANA –– a massive humpback surfaces and surprises kayakers
TALKING WITH DOLPHINS –– dolphin research with the CymaScope and CymaGlyphs
DOWNSTREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS –– a struggle from the depths back to creativity
SINGING THROUGH THE OCEAN –– whale songs –– simply beautiful or meaningful?
BEACHFRONT MOTEL –– moonlight reflections in the ocean
THE JOURNALS OF CONSTANT WATERMAN –– the Mystic River into Mystic Seaport
ATLANTIC ASSAULT PART 2 –– “the roar is so loud I can feel it”
I WOKE TO THE QUIET –– a journey home through the wake of a storm
And More!
Take a Look at OCEAN Spring 2010
Winter 2010, Issue 25
IMAGINE . . . MUSIC by Jeff Beyl
SYNTHESIS OF TONES IN HARMONY by Diane Buccheri
DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND by Diane Buccheri
LIVING WATERS by Edna Gordon
SPIRIT BEAR by Joy Ehle
ARCTIC ICE by George Tombs
ATLANTIC ASSAULT by Diane Buccheri
SWIM BACK by Erin Lyndahl Martin
NERISSA'S LOVER by Katherine Magendie
SONGS IN THE KEY OF SEA by Diane Buccheri and Kimberly Ford
THE BEST RIDE by Dannan O'Brien
MAN & MANATEE by Neil Ever Osborne
GRAY by Christine Brooks
A HAUNTINGLY LONELY PLACE by Melba Milak
IMAGINE . . . MUSIC in the movement of a school of sharks, hundreds of them. Imagine the pulse of a blue whale's heartbeat and in the hissing blow of a gray whale. There is music
all around us, Jeff Beyl builds the rhythms for us.
Music flows throughout the universe, our atmosphere, the earth, through the ocean, through us, through the whales and tiny fish, in every atom, and with everything. We are all part of
the lattice of energy, moving, vibrating, creating rhythm, making a SYNTHESIS OF TONES IN HARMONY.
DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND, we see the repeating universal flow circles again and again, repeating patterns small and large. All flows in this universal flow, is part of it, creating
harmonies with motion, blending, synchronizing, making one universal song of existence.
Seneca Hawk Elder Edna Gordon says in LIVING WATERS, "Red Man’s footprints faded with the sands of time but through the changeable tides of destiny, the currents of the living
waters move on with the spiritual currents of life."
"We glide along the shore, almost afraid to breathe, when I see him: the elusive SPIRIT BEAR. After Raven made the earth green he flew to a few remote islands and made every ten
black bears white to remind him of the time when the world was covered in ice and snow. He decreed that these bears would live forever in peace."
Is ARCTIC ICE really melting? George Tombs ventures onto the bitterly cold and stunningly beautiful ice to find out.
With the rising water, the sun rises, and for a moment, the clouds sweep sideways away, a blanket momentarily uncovering the day, promising an empty promise that the storm is passing.
The waves roar and split themselves open on the giving sand. The gulls soar over the marsh, away from the roil, searching for some breakfast. The ocean comes in ATLANTIC ASSAULT.
"Music is motion and life is motion — this is all a matter of our cells, the speed at which things vibrate and drift once you get down to it. I’ve wondered if I have any right to play music when
I haven’t seen anything on a subatomic level. Or atomic — only the whole, which isn’t the whole but an accidental totality, he was saying with his put-back-together body" in SWIM BACK.
NERISSA'S LOVER, "He stares out to sea today, yesterday, every day the waters offer up promises her scarf, her hat one shoe –– just one, he asks?"
"In this rounding of the spirit and soul in the waves, she hears music. She hears its patterns and shapes, hears entire songs," SONGS IN THE KEY OF SEA.
"A luminous arc spun from sunlight and foam reaches over my head. I’m tucked into a blanket of water on the glide, fluid and free. Exalted, elated, in harmony singing the chorus of the
seaway." THE BEST RIDE.
"Plump bodies of gray mass clustered together, limbs touching perhaps for the sake of warmth. Only gentle gestures among the idle creatures suggest a common interest: conserve energy."
Manatees struggle to survive. Can MAN & MANATEE mix well?
"Only, wait . . . There was no edge, and no water. Instead, in front of me sat miles and miles of barren land. No flour like sand with hidden treasures and no ocean." GRAY.
IN A HAUNTINGLY LONELY PLACE, "The monochromatic tones –– brown dunes, brown sea oats, a line of brown pelicans flying at the ocean’s edge –– make a picture like a faded sepia print.
The wind –– biting and bitter –– sings eerie tunes with no key or tonality like a twentieth century opera."
Take a Look at OCEAN Winter 2010
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