Tohoku EarthquakeNever will I ever forget the early morning hours of March 11, 2011. Only time will tell, but it may turn out to have been one of the most significant days of my life in terms of taking care of my health.
It was about 2:30am and I was sitting on the couch with my laptop, working on this website and watching television when the phone rang. It was my sister who wanted to tell me about some personal experience with an earthquake she had. While she began explaining it to me, I happened to change the television channel and there, on live TV, was a streaming broadcast from NHK News in Tokyo covering the Tōhoku earthquake.
My jaw hit the floor while I watched the live feed of the tsunami racing across the Japanese countryside, devastating everything in its path. My sister continued talking until I finally said, in a dry tone, "Paula.., a huge earthquake just hit Japan." We continued to talk as we both watched whatever coverage we could find. The Earthquake struck just 15 minutes before I turned on CNN and I was watching it unfold.
The following day I discovered the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant had been devastated and it was leaking radioactive particles and I immediately went online to check how the weather patterns might disperse the radiation. Sure enough, the jet stream typically blows east from Japan towards California and across the USA. Soon after I began finding websites that were showing computer models of how the radiation might spread via the jet stream and it didn't look good. The United States was right in its path.
Yesterday I had some time so, I decided to make this movie using the XtraNormal.com online software. It took WAY longer than I thought it would but was lots of fun.
While making it, I had the idea of quoting Miss South Carolina 2007 answering a question in the Miss Teen USA contest. It was a perfect fit and worked better than I thought it would. At first I had the protagonist almost making fun of the clueless waitress, but in the end, I just had to make it compassionate and have him show her some kindess. After all ~ that is The Way.
I also seized the opportunity to suggest checking out Rense.com. As always, have an open mind, especially when you visit Rense.com! There's some really good information running through that site, you just have to know how to filter it and use your good judgement.
Lately there has been a lot of talk about the radiation from the Fukushima meltdown in the atmosphere. Radiation has been officially detected in rain water and in our air from many areas in the USA, Europe and elsewhere. Each time one of these findings is reported, we are told that it is far below danger levels and that it is harmless and we have nothing to be concerned about.
Is this true? Can we believe what we are being told? Is it truly harmless?
Back in 1972 Dr. Abram Petkau conducted some tests trying to see how much radiation it would take to damage cell walls. He discovered that 3500 rads in 2¼ hours would destroy a cell membrane. Then he decided to see what effect low doses of radiation over long periods of time would have on the membrane.
A while back I created this t-shirt design. Guess I was reacting to all the crap the boob-tube inflicts on the masses while dumbing them down. No, no.., I'm not cynical!
Let's face it, there really is some terrible television programming happening these days. Sure ~ there is some good stuff too, maybe even some very good, but it seems most is designed for idiots or to create idiots.
Since the interweb was unleashed, the time I used to spend watching television I now spend in front of my laptop. Not sure this is good, either, actually. I should be playing guitar or writing lyrics or hanging with friends or looking for my next ex-gf (told you I wasn't cynical).
It seems corporate media has an agenda they always want to push. Maybe it's political or moral or just financial, but there almost always seems to be some under-current pulling the viewer towards their often times disguised goal. It feels like some people I don't really know but I kind of trust but who are a bad influence on me. You know, the ones your grandma tensed her suspicious eyes at when you spoke about them.
After all the endless Hollywood movies depicting violence, disaster and tragedy, people become desensitized and it often times takes something extreme to make us react or feel. The earthquakes in Japan and Haiti were very real, very extreme and very tragic.
In my awareness it has always been clear to me that it is important to allow myself to feel the events that happen around the world. Sitting here in Florida, USA it can be easy to have a sense of calm and content, as if nothing could ever happen where I live. It would be easy to shrug off the earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, starvation, bomb killings, hurricanes and move on with my life. After-all, there's nothing I can do about it, right?
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