One of my interests is pastel painting and I have long admired an artist called Zaria Forman. She paints with pastels the most beautiful scenes of the Greenland ice.
Her paintings are huge.
Take a look at this video and see Zaria’s amazing paintings that she does as her way of enlightening us to the beauty of our planet.
This is just gorgeous!!!!
Can’t you just hear it –
“she loves me…..she loves me not…..she loves me….”
I love these types of stories.
These guys are amazing ….. and what a ride for the deer!!!!
Enjoy…
I’m still coming to grips with Twitter and the “trending” thing they have going on, but what amazed me was that I had to search the trending part for what people are saying about what has recently happened in Egypt i.e. the sentencing of 529 Morsi supporters to death. A further mass trial of 683 could also face the death penalty.
DJ Rubiconski tweeted “If 529 white Europeans were sentenced to death there would be an invasion of #Egypt tomorrow by a coalition of Western countries.” … and it would be with all guns blazing!
Here is another example of the outrageous, stupid, inhumane, cruel, senseless, power hungry, … what other adjectives can I add … way humans treat other humans, this time on a massive scale. The sad part is that we see this on a daily basis in small and, sometimes, unseen ways in our own backyards.
You can keep adding to the list, I’m sure you get my flow here.
So it’s no wonder humans can be so violent towards animals without flinching.
Do you think it’s a lost cause – animal welfare? I don’t.
I look around and see growing evidence (albeit growing slowly) that humans are gradually pulling themselves out of the caveman mentality and are starting to “care” about other humans – evidence being the flip side of #egypt529 which is #MH370 – the Malaysian plane that has gone missing with 239 people on board. Here we see Governments falling over themselves trying to find this plane and I believe it is not so much that it makes these “helping” countries look good, but that they are actually able to do something without having their hands tied in red tape and without fear of causing diplomatic incidents (which reminds me …. Ukraine’s gone quiet).
No, as per the list above, it’s in our backyards that the real cavemen lurk
It’s these cavemen we need to convince that they have to start respecting other humans then we might have a chance of them respecting animals.
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I came across this today which really saddened me: French Organic Farmer Refuses to Spray (update – article no longer available)
Basically it said that an organic and biodynamic winemaker, Emmanuel Giboulot, had appeared before a judge for not treating his vineyard with a chemical spray as a preventive measure against a bacterial vine disease. He could face up to 6 months in jail for this. He has already been fined 1,000EU for putting his neighbors’ vineyards at risk.
He argues that the pesticide is harmful to beneficial insects and animals, and may not even be effective at preventing the vine disease. He says “I don’t want to undo decades of work applying a treatment where the effects on the health of the vines, and the public, are as yet unproved.”
Now I’m not disputing the fact that this disease is devastating to the vineyards in France (or anywhere else for that matter), but, as of date, this grower has not had the disease, in fact his vines are perfectly healthy and, as he does his own preventative measures, I doubt if he’ll ever have the disease ….. (his grapes, not him) .UPDATE 8 April 2014: The final verdict has now been announced. Emmanuel Giboulot has been ordered to pay pay a €500 (a fine of €1,000, with €500 suspended.) – he is going to appeal. More Info
