Oops, Sorry!!

This is the time when sorry is fashionable. Sorry that I played around on my life partner, sorry that I drank and killed your loved one, sorry that we did not do what we should, to ensure the gulf of Mexico is safe from the disaster of an oil spill. I have heard so many sorrys, teary eyed and otherwise. It is so easy to do first, say sorry next, then think later. Do the people who say sorry, giggle behind their sleeves as they plan their actions?

"I'll do what I want and say sorry when I am caught, people will buy it." The media certainly like the sorry angle, probably makes them feel powerful, they get the perpetrator to become repentant.

Sorry is now, the latest accessory.

This morning my friend called to talk about something she heard on the Coast to Coast radio show. The discussion on the show makes it appear that the present oil spill in the golf of Mexico is signaling the "end of days", the oil in the water apparently looks like blood, she heard. Basically in Revelation 8 Verse 8, a trumpet is sounded by a second angel and along with a mountain burning with fire and cast into the ocean, a third of the ocean turns to blood. Unless this is the earth's blood which could be seen as the oil deposits, I feel we have much longer to wait before the end times. I don't think we can get away so easily nor should we expect to. We have done a lot to this earth and her creatures and before we "go" we should learn - those of us left on earth - how to correct the damage we have created or we will be back again on another planet - like we now are from Atlantis - to repeat the learning.

Let's look at the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I had an image of the oil spilling so quickly from the earth the it creates an unstable gap in the earth's crust which causes a catastrophic sink hole to occur in and around the Gulf. Like when you remove the blood from an vein and the vein collapses. The expectation was to siphon oil over a period of decades until the oil pocket in the earth is empty. With so much oil spilling, what if this is happening too quickly and the earth is not able to adjust fast enough? Will we see this as an act of God? The oil industry as well as many other industries that go into the earth in search of profits, do not look at the old traditional ways of take only what you need. They take and take, leaving their children to clean up the messes. Or they give most of their money to charity when they get too old to enjoy it. Makes me wonder about their relationships with their children.

The world's economy is in the dumps. I feel that this oil spill will continue to throw us even further into the economic pit, from which only a major exodus of humanity from starvation will correct. We understand that we are all interconnected not just humans but the animals, birds, sea creatures, insects and rocks. What happens to a rock affects a snail which affects a bird, which stops seeds from being carried about, costing us our lumber industry, and our food, taking a toll on us.

In this case I think BP should get on and plug the hole they have created - for real, for real - and go make their profits elsewhere like making money doing cleanup.

Beautiful Vancouver

Oh! The rain is back. The wonderful, miserable juice that keeps Vancouver attractive when it is not showering. But what a beautiful week. I think we have had a week of glorious, gorgeous weather. I believe the snow is beginning to present itself. Either way Vancouver is beautiful, with rain and without.

GO CANADA! CONGRATULATIONS!
Oh and the same to the rest of the world!

Thank you Olympics

I am sitting at my computer with the sun streaming through my window. Warm wonderful sun. I remember last year, Vancouver was socked in by record snowfall. Vancouverites were not ready for it nor did we know how to handle that much snow. People were sliding all over the place. Cars were buried under several feet of snow. The snow packs on the roads did not finally leave until the middle of the spring. Drivers got scared. As soon as the weather cleared, and snow tires went on sale, drivers were putting snow tires on their vehicles. One of my friends even added snow tires with studs or spikes because he could not get up the hill to his home. He has a Toyota Hybrid car which, although is good on gas, is incapable of navigating the streets of Vancouver in the snow. So Vancouverites were prepared for snow. Big snow. This year, Our snow ready drivers are getting around wet streets, my friend having a challenge with his car skidding on the rain soaked streets like a puppy skidding across wooden floors.

Looking forward to the Olympics. This is Vancouver's time to host the Olympics. The Winter Olympics. We had so much snow last year that I think the Olympics organizers thought they had it all in the bag. Then El Nino hit and our snow emigrated to the United States. I am sure the Border guards would have stopped the winter weather from entering their country if they could, but nobody, nobody can stop the great mother when she sets her sights on a certain area in the world. Mother Nature took all the snow that Vancouver was hoping for to make the Olympics run smoothly and dumped it on the southern United States. Surprise all around.

So, I am happy. It is sunny. It is warm. The glorious beauty of Vancouver is being shown off in all it's splendor. What could be better than skiing, snowboarding, lugeing and skating in this beautiful weather nestled in the majestic mountains of Vancouver? I expect that we are getting some criticism about our lack of snow, but if Jamaica can have athletes in a winter sport, we can adjust and make the best of the fine weather.

So, here's to the athletes of the world. You are the wonderful example that we can work together in solidarity, I feel you are one of the great example for peace on earth. I would like to believe that you have all brought the big bright smile from mother nature with an early spring, baby goats and daffodils. Makes me smile.