Family Friends Community,
Every year my father circled on our TV guide
the airing of John Huston's seminal film Moby Dick.
Beverly Hillbilly's, Lost in Space, Gilligan's Island, Laugh-In,
all,
were preempted in this one TV household by Captain Ahab, the crew of the Pequod and an albino whale.
My youngish mind back then was unable to wrap around this classic
and certainly could not sit through 2 hours of black and white film.
No...handsome swashbucklers?
Ahab drunk on his obsessions.
Men days on end on a boat looking for a mythical whale?
In my universe,
Ahab's ONLY goal was to
possess
dominate
kill
a whale.
Melville, the author of “Moby-Dick,”
named his whale after a real-life whale called Mocha Dick,
who lived near the Chilean island of Mocha.
This Mocha Dick possessed deadly super leviathan powers.
2021
Possessing
Dominating
Killing
Human's manifest destiny is
S**t out of balance with Nature.
Great hunks of ice south and north poles breaking away.
Fires bulimic on all major continents.
Floods flowing mythic into deadly.
Water more plastic than not.
Exponential species extinction.
Opportunistic diseases rising.
Over consuming, hunting, fishing, gathering.
Buy, toss, pollute society all ends up somewhere.
My empathetic muscle is on a rant.
Are you feeling it too?
Our bodies are 60% water.
What's in our waters
is in Us.
A leviathan is in the room.
The more we Ahab our way with Nature.
The more Moby Dick and it's super leviathan powers will bring Us down.
It is the manifest destiny of our Earth.
The older me abides now and understands why
Father made us watch Moby Dick every year.
An indoctrination of the greater good kind.
Living as One.
Or succumb to our Leviathans.
OMwards !
Only One
I follow a partner team Paul Nicklen and Christina Mittenmeier who are supernatural photographers.
Their photo documentation of wildlife in the balance is superb, purposeful and some times haunting.
Together with an international consortium of Nature Ambassadors
their mission is to
write a new balanced climate future,
tackle the leviathan in the room,
create protected ocean super highways for indigenous species,
connect humanity through story
and
illuminate we have Only One.
Swim with Us.
Elevate all of Us.