In the midst of a sea change
The morning walk on the beach showed evidence of the BP Oil Spill disaster and it put me in mind of how much we are in a time of large transitions in our lifetime. BP’s screw up and the government’s screw up with Katrina and Rita, or our federal government’s inability to predict or defend the terrorist attacks on 9/11 – so many huge things happening. I’m reading a good book called Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky, which is about another sea change going on in our lives right now and that is a surge in people doing things without getting paid for them. A very interesting thesis.
It made me think this morning of my friend in Florida documenting the shoreline by blogging about it, just in case it wasn’t going to be around. So this morning I chimed in with my observations here on Ft. Morgan – behold oil slicks coming on shore up and down the beach (sticks to your feet):
Jellyfish dead on the shore up and down the beach:
Dead fish washing ashore and being pecked by seabirds (who seem to not have oil):
