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Movin forward. What goes around comes around.

For years this blog was my happy place. Jefff Liggett, the owner of TreasureCoast.com discovered me here. At first I guest posted and then he asked me to take over as editor. For about 8 years I was honored not only to report the local news but report about our water issues and many local issues that affected us all. 

One of the posts i posted for years was “Pet off the Week”  for the Humane Society of the Treasure Coast. 

Newsbreak picked it up which was great because it gave us a bigger audience and that meant more pets getting adopted.

I eventually got my own space on Newsbreak. This worked out great for me. Jeff was ill and I knew we would be selling TreasureCoast soon.  Not what i wanted to happen but this is life right.

Treasure Coast was sold and I decided that the best thing to  do was focus on my Newsbreak page. I focused on two things: my “Pet off the Week” post and two posts a day regarding missing people in Florida. I had hoped to create something larger someday and be able to do a deeper dive into the issue of missing people.

Approximately 840,000 children are reported missing every year.
Two things happened. Both got a good following of about 4000 people.
I’ll stop here to say I did not have any black marks against me.
I got great comments and what was really heartbreaking was people left their prayers. People prayed for the dogs and prayed for the missing people. So sweet! in this day and age when social media can be so toxic i was so heartened by the response.
Then I fell and broke my arm (right humorous). As painful as it was I made sure I posted everyday. It wasn’t a lot but I felt like it was making some sort of difference.
The whole thing worked out great for me until it didn’t. One day I went to post and the page was gone. This had happened before. So I simply used the same info I had used before. The big issue is when TreasureCoast was sold they redid the entire website so I had no access to my old stuff. When I pointed out that all my recent stuff was on Newsbreak they said it didn’t count. When I discussed this with other writers they said it was preposterous.
I’m not sharing this to complain. Quite the opposite. The universe has spoken and said in no uncertain terms its time move on. It’s a plot point.
When one door closes an even better one opens. I’m not sure what it’s going to be but i’m totally looking forward to the journey.

Victory

Victory

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Loggerhead  turtles hanging on the back of a truck waiting to be returned to the ocean after their rehab at Loggerhead Marine Life Center in Juno, Florida.

Over 30 years ago, long-time Juno Beach resident Eleanor Fletcher started what is now Loggerhead Marinelife Center. Eleanor and her husband Robert had a real estate business in Juno Beach. Eleanor began to notice there were many  sea turtles nesting on the shore in spring and summer. She was curious about why so many hatchings headed landward after hatching, rather than back to sea, and as a result, began some of the earliest research on sea turtles in our area.

As she learned more and more about the sea turtles, she began to see that the turtles were threatened by the encroachment of man as he moved and built closer and closer to the shoreline. She decided that educating children about the sea turtles and the need for conservation and protection was the best hope for the sea turtles to survive over the long term. She began giving classes, first in her home, then above the real estate office as more and more children enjoyed her programs.

In April 2007, the organization relocated to a new 12,000 square foot certified “green” facility and changed its name to Loggerhead Marinelife Center. The new facility includes a state-of-the-art full service veterinary hospital, exhibit hall, outdoor classroom, research lab, and resource center.  They have an awesome gift shop. I usually go there this time of year to buy ocean related child books for my nieces and this year for my grandson.

Loggerhead Marinelife Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit education and ocean conservation facility located on the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach County, Florida. The facility houses a variety of exhibits, live sea turtles and other coastal creatures. Exhibits include a massive prehistoric Archelon sea turtle replica, salt water aquaria and displays of local wildlife, as well as educational displays about South Florida’s marine environment.”

I included the photo above and some video in my multi award winning documentary film “The Garbage of Jupiter Beach” because these gentle giants often come with plastic bags in their guts, or filled with fishing line or some other garbage people have thrown in the ocean. So before you liter please put these guys in your head and understand the damage that can be done.

Here are photos from the last time I was there last year.

You can go here and see whose in the hospital now.

This is wonderful place to support. I am looking forward to the day I can take my Grandson Ethan.

writing 101: why i write

I used to write. Then I stopped.

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Last January I made a commitment to my blog to use it for the highest good.

I started out just posting video. This a great way to post all the video from a particular event and send to everyone so they could watch and share.

As a documentary filmmaker I let the film do the talking for me.

Then I started to write. I felt that if one person read what I wrote and it resonated with them I would be happy. One became two, became ten, became fifty. The US became Australia that became Brazil that became all kinds of countries.

I am so humbled.

I can’t stop writing. This is one my issues. My friends complain that it takes a week to read one of my blogs.

There are many things to talk about. What I have found is lots of people have the same questions and concerns that I have but not the time to think about it. I do on my blog what I do in my daily life. I educate. I write about the water. I write about the environment. I write about mental health. I write about Golden Retrievers.

I make list of things I want to write about and then I loose them.

My daily life is that of a psychiatric home health nurse. The writing I do for that is no of your business and protected information.

I have to have an end to that day and a beginning of one where I live in the universe with my fellow travelers.

Thank you all for being here! I am so grateful.