One word PLASTIC
I have found coincidences to be communications from a realm I feel I have very little connection to in my daily mortal life. Coincidences, at least the ones that I experience these days, remind me of the perfectness of the universe in putting together all that needs to happen, much like a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes coincidents are there just to provide a glimpse into something greater and occasionally to provide a moral lesson. In the world of coincidences, last week would have to be all about plastic. In case you missed some of these stories below, I wanted to stitch them all together in a way that perhaps tells a story, a tragic story of how plastics may be killing us(or not?). The beauty of coincidences is that they may have a different message for every person who experiences them. The stories below are about plastic in the oceans, and people protesting packaging and oh yes death. Read on to see what I’m talking about.
First was the news on August 29th about the two sailors who sailed from California to Hawaii using a raft made of plastic junk and who on their journey, found plastic floating both in the ocean and also in the fish that they caught for food during their journey. The video of their arrival can be seen here:
Second , on Wednesday august 27th employees at Lush body care products in San Francisco’s Union Square were making a statement about the over usage of packaging by baring their bodies to local pedestrians. See the rest of the article here: Story LINK
Third came the radio interview last week on PRI’s The World with a particular reporter who has been living without plastic for a month and chronicling it on a blog. You can see the complete story below: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7508321.stm
Last but not least was the story of a Eugene Caldwell who died last week as a result of being hit by a runaway San Francisco police horse who according to this San Francisco Chronicle article was spooked due to the following: “The incident occurred after a white plastic bag being tossed by the wind caught in the animal’s bridle”. If this story was not a fitting yet tragic ending to this list of plastic blurbs, then what had to top this all off was that Eugene used to work for Procter and Gamble, perhaps one of the largest manufacturers of products that use “plastic” packaging (the focus of first 3 articles). I didn’t make any of this up, I just experienced them in a succession and have chosen to share them with you. Care to share what’s conjured up for you in reading these stories? Do you see a message?
Here is the link to the full San Francisco Chronicle:
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