My trip to the sea was very interesting. So peaceful, calm, spiritual and so serene.  Yet lurking beneath, as there is in most things including people, a whole other world emerges waiting to be discovered and uncovered. Yes you must pull back the covers sometimes to see what is hiding under them. Or you can close your eyes, take a deep breath, then jump in and take your chances!

On the flip side, the sea and surrounding terrain can hold some interesting and sometimes disgusting matter.  Or is it anti-matter.

For instance, we have some of this, which is fairly normal and almost camouflaged with the coloration displayed by Miss Crabby as she attempts to become one with the sand.

Further along this becomes a bit murkier as other life forms appear such as these.

Ok, that is likely enough slime for one day/night.  I have much more inside my cave of treasure. I am getting ready to unleash more upon you soon.  There is indeed, plenty of protein in the sea and surrounding waters and sand.

Anyone hungry yet?  As I always say, love me, love my crab.  Well I don’t really say that.

Cheers,

genes creative waves

PS. Hi Honey, Din Din is almost ready to be served!

Before I get into the Cordova Bay scene, I want to say sorry to Lydia as I missed her reference to the 4:20 post I made.  I went back and checked my links and of course I incorrectly linked it to Michelle Obama’s organic garden. Hmm. Not sure what that is all about.  I am sure she is not growing the “weed” in it.  Still you never know.   Should be clear now what 4:20 is.

In any case I visited Codova Bay which we loosely say is in Victoria, BC as we do with many things in this area.  It is actually in Saanich, BC.  No matter, so am I some of the time.  Hey my spell check does not recognize Saanich and wants to change it to satanic.  Hey it is not that baaaaaaaaaad around here.  It is quite pleasant actually.

I took a bus trip close to there and walked a few kilometers or so to the beach and took my Fuji point and click camera.  It does all the work for me so I tend to not take the credit (or debit) for it.  Looking at it on the map it is about 8.1KM from me, as the car flies,  so I must have walked nearly twice that far as I went up Mt. Doug (Mount Douglas) after traversing the beach at fairly low tide.  It has plenty of interesting, and some disgusting things around.  Mt Doug is a real hike, I went up the back way and will have a few pics from there to post later.  You can see the sea all around from every direction except up island to the north.  Fantastic view.

One of the interesting spectacles was a tree that appears to be leaning out to sea almost as if it is beckoning to go there or perhaps to become the bow of a ship headed out to sea.  In any case here it is, so you be the judge.

I will post another shot.  How this tree manages to say up, is anyone’s guess.  What do you think?

I think maybe the “ancients” were visiting here at one time, well I am sure they were, and planted these rocks in this pattern for some reason.

Well, to me, these are all spiritual things and have good energy, calm, peaceful, serene.   It looks and smells great near the ocean.  Even before I got to the ocean I could smell it.  Just feel the energy in these pictures if you will.  Can you?

Ok, enough already.  Perhaps I will make a pictorial video out of the excursion, perhaps not.

Got to get something done today.

Enjoy your day or night wherever you may be.

genes creative waves

All of us has a story, and perhaps multiple stories.  Eckhart Tolle has some interesting thoughts on that in his book Practicing the Power of Now. I highly recommend you check that out.

So ignoring his advice, for now, I will tell a story.  I have had allergies since my days of youth, some of which are quite severe, food and environmental allergies.  A recent trip to an allergy specialist got me some advice to avoid using sulfites in my diet.  Now if you look at most anything in a grocery store, just about everything contains this preservative.  In fact most things you buy have a long list of chemicals and additives that no one in their right mind would willingly ingest. Many of these things are not “green” and loaded with additives.

Still they feed it to us authorized by the various governmental bodies and agencies.  Also the food we are fed is laced with chemicals, pesticides, herbicides and well as many plants being altered genetically.  The soil for the food is dead of almost all the natural microorganisms that keep the soil healthy and the plants used to produce the food for us.

Who is behind this?  Well companies like Monsanto.  Who are they, from Wikipedia, here is an excerpt:

Monsanto’s development and marketing of genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone, as well as its aggressive litigation and political lobbying practices, have made the company controversial around the world and a primary target of the anti-globalization movement and environmental activists.

In a recent news item, Michelle Obama was planting an organic garden at the White House so they would enjoy some good fresh vegetables.  So who would object to that?  Well, guess who. Pesticide Lobby Group lead by Dow, Monsanto and DuPont. Talk about WMDs will ya! Totally insane.

No wonder that that allergy sufferers are on the increase.  Of course there are a number of reasons for this.

I started using soap nuts to do my laundry and find them highly effective for me. I react to strong scents, soaps and chemicals.  So this natural tree product is great for me.

Happy 4:20 Day. Or is is Happy 420 Day?

Ok, getting to the 4:20,  I knew what it meant in general terms.  Here is an article about it.  All ready to toke up? Some point to this as the Origin. Seems like this ties in with all this natural stuff.  There are lots of legal drugs around, alcohol and such and the powers that be take issue with marijuana, which is much less of a problem overall.  I am not recommending it just believe it should be legalized and they can regulate it and then the governments can tax it for use just like the other legal drugs.

Ok I will get off this for now and leave you with a few photos I have taken lately.

Cheers,

genes creative waves

Out of head, out of mind.

Well if you are not out of your head, you should be.  That’s meditation-ally speaking, of course.  Many people, head people usually, have a tough time meditating. They may deny it, being in the ego state and in a perpetual state of the monkey mind with all its chatter clatter.

Yes, I have known some. It takes effort to meditate (not),  rather no-effort.  If you see it as effort, it will be, and it will be more difficult.  I know I have been there and it is a more of a letting go.

The mind, the ego, does not want to let go of anything or anyone.  Focusing on doing more of what you do not want, will get you more of the same of that do not want.  Just be and let go.  Some say it is to commune with God, universe,  source or whatever you wish to call that.

Speaking of serenity, and I do sometimes, speak of and to, serenity.  But this is not referring to a person in this case.  Here is a quote I received today.

“Meditation is returning to the source.

The inner source is serenity.

If you don’t realize the source within yourself, you are lost in confusion and sorrow.

Dharma

www.deeshan. com “

It is not really speaking, thinking or any of that stuff.

Make sense?  Perhaps but when we try to make sense of things we sometimes lose the real meaning, trying to analyze things to death.  That keeps us in the head and not being in touch with who we really are.  Close your eyes, turn off the gadgets, noise, feel it, breathe it, allow it to flow, center yourself first.

I am not really going to give a mediation lesson here,  Wayne Dyer and many others have methods.  Google it.  Or better yet, Scroogle It.  Scroogle your Google.  Go with whatever feels right or try several of the methods, but do not get hung up on the methodology or you will stay stuck in your head.  That is not where you want to be as you will not truly experience meditation in that space. You can also meditate on an object such as a picture, or a peaceful scene. Here is one I took recently that captures a peaceful moment for me.

Cheers,

Genes creative waves

Another year has come and gone for my son Marc.  His birthday being April 1st and this is no joke.   Back in time when he was born, our first born, he was very ill at birth and the first year, especially,was touch and go.  Some how he and we, survived.  I won’t go into all the details here and now.  He was a fighter and that was, I believe, the reason for his being here today.  For that I am truly grateful.

Happy Birthday Marc

So big guy,  Happy Birthday and many more.

Here is a little tune to wish you a Happy Birthday.

Lots of love,

Dad