Number 50!

This is my 50^th posting. I have been doing this blog since May 18^th and, although I don’t post every day, I try to post as often as possible. I have made it a practice not to post twice in one day…not because I only think of things once a day but only because I like seeing the days I have posted on the calendar and would rather save extra items for days I can’t think of anything else to post. So as many days on the calendar can be marked as possible.

I have been trying to think of something deep and profound for my 50^th post and I think I have thought of it.

Here is deep: The ocean on average is 12,400 feet deep. In other words, extremely deep. It has 300 times the habitable volume than there is for creatures that live on the land. So there is 300 times more space for sea creatures than for land creatures.

Here is profound: There are sea creatures that live in the depths of the ocean that are born, live their lives and die and never know that they are in the ocean. Their world is the water. They don’t know there is a surface or what air is or the sun or clouds or moon or stars. They will live their whole lives never knowing anything about the world outside the ocean.

We don’t know these creatures. We have barely begun documenting the creatures that live in the depths of the ocean. But we do know that they are necessary to keep our eco-system balanced. They play a vital role in the life of the planet. We don’t know about them and they don’t know about us. Yet their very existence is threatened by how we live on this earth. Our waste, pollution and bad habits will eventually affect them. Maybe not today, tomorrow, next week or even next year. But we eventually the way we treat the oceans will affect their lives.

So these creatures that don’t even know we exist or even what land is can have their existence altered by us. They are just swimming and eating and procreating to their heart’s content and some ship sinks and lands on them spewing it’s filthy oil and other contaminants into their world. That’s just one example. I won’t even get into the stuff we dump in the ocean or how sonar effects them.

Suffice to say, just because we don’t know what lives at the depths of the ocean doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be extremely careful about taking care not to affect their lives. They are God’s creatures too. Besides, why tick off something that may be big and scary and could come up from the depths and eat New York City whole?? Why chance it??