The 13th

Happy Friday the 13th, for the second time already this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a good diversion

This is not only adorable, but a lovely testament to the amazingness of animals!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ860P4iTaM

Enjoy!

One Day of the Year

Happy International Women's Day!!!!

I hope today you will participate in random acts of anarchy, coupled with enthusiastic bouts of joy!!!


It's just one day a year, so enjoy it. I guess it's kinda like Christmas, or as I prefer, crismas, but without the tree, presents or hymns..though, the connection's still valid :)

And if you haven't yet done it, please sign the save the seal petition on the left; it's important.

And while we celebrate the fact that we, in many countries can and do enjoy many freedoms we are lucky enough to take for granted, today will be a day like any other for many other women, all over the world, and right here in my so-called liberated land, nevermind, in my city. Today will sadly be like any other; women will be threatened, denied her rights, hurt, abused or murdered.

The numbers of women getting murdered by their fucking husbands is on the rise.

So, while we celebrate for the strides we have made, remember that we can only fully celebrate when we have successfully overthrown and therefore abolished patriarchy forever.

Algonquin

Ah, Algonquin Provincial Park...It's so vast, so immense, it's an amazing place to know. This extraordinary photo of a beautiful, thirsty young cow moose was my first encounter with such a huge, majestic being!

Being among so many trees makes me feel less frenetic, less chaotic, more whole, clam and centred. Forests and trees and gifts.

I love being able to look far and not see one single power line, ugly building; I think mostly all are eyesores, or even, cars.

I have done a few different hikes there. I remember one where I saw a woman in full- on stilettos!
Now, I wear hiking boots or sometimes my sneakers, but heels? And it wasn't like that particular hike was straight and flat, in fact in was pretty uphill for quite a bit of the way.

I'd like to share some images of the forest as seen on the hike of the whiskey rapids, where, apparently, bears were about, and could be heard, though not by me.

P.S. International Women's Day is 2 days away, how will you celebrate? Is this even the right word for a day of the year, one day we are "given" to scream for our rights?


http://www.isis.aust.com/iwd/stevens/origins.htm

The Animals Strike Back!!

And lastly kind readers, let me end on this final note for the day:

Every time I hear about a shark attack, or a chained, caged animal who let the captor have it, or even an escapee, I do a happy dance, I really do.

One small step for beings, one giant step for beings with teeth and claws!!!

Check this out!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ut0KUHO9E
if it doesn't work goto Youtube and search for " When Animals Strike Deer Attack"

and this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TriOIvvl2yI -

Dominion, or who the fuck do we think we are?

(before we begin, if you click on the title of this post you'll be taken to my website,
http://protestanimaltesting.wetpaint.com/)

So, today's "topic", if you will, is all about the funny, and yet, all too encompassing word, dominion. What exactly does it entail? What does it mean to give someone dominion over something?

Rule? Reign? Supremacy? Do these words sum up the concept of " having dominion over" well enough for you?

As a traveller, and more specifically, a backpacker, I try to walk lightly on the earth. I carry only what I can carry on my back, and in many situations, if I can't fit it in to my backpack, I leave it behind and am better off for it.

When I'm up north in the forest, I know that I am in someone else's home.
I understand that I am a visitor, and let's be frank here, I am, like all the other humans an uninvited intruder on the forest's solitude. Though, unlike the gun-toting muderers who roam our beautiful hinterlands, desecrating both the beings who indwell and the earth with their trash and hate, I walk quietly, I bring nothing save for a backpack and walking stick.

I am a meat-eater, but I also understand that this doesn't give me any special rights or privileges pertaining to having a sense of dominion over any other being, especially a being I am eating.

I, as a human, do not at all believe that humans are by any means "more evolved" or ]"more enlightened" than other beings. If anything, we are less so. We have rape. We have guns.

All beings have myriad of emotions and ways of interacting; many animal clans practice acts that I find disturbing, like gerbils who will eat their baby, when they "need protein", whatever, but we're not really much better are we?

Canada continues to murder our seals, Japan, Iceland and Norway still murder their whales, Americans are killing their wolves, and what's worse, their trying to do it "secretly" with the help of that wicked woman, Palin. We all know what China does to it's dwindling brown bear population; for anyone who doesn't, they kill them for their "parts" , yes that's right, murder for what ails you, literally, and then there are the Pandas, who have all but lost their natural home.
What about the Russians? The way they, like the Chinese, force and torture bears into "circus acts" and cages, is beyond disgusting. It humiliates me and hurts me, as if I asm a bear too. Though, I can not even begin to conceive what those bears, or any animal who is tortured and shamed must feel.

I have absolutely zero respect for these so called "cultures" of people.

http://members.tripod.com/~animom/circus.html

Check out this link! It's sad, and horrific, but think about our topic when reading it, will you?

northern adventures

For those of you from Canada, more specifically Ontario, I would like to do an homage of the wild north. I love my province, especially northern Ontario, because it's beautiful, and remote, and filled with life; not the human kind, necessarily, but the other kind, birds, and beavers, and bears, though unbelievably the fucking government allows "sport" hunting, well, let's call it what it is, shall we, murder, of mother bears, any bears. It's horrific.

I was lucky enough to see one, at a dump, sadly, but, all the same it was an amazing experience to behold! S/he was a shy, black bear, nibbling trash, and when our car pulled up, she quickly ducked behind the hill and back into the forest s/he went.

This is the photo we got, below.

Notice, too, what we do to the earth, and how disgusting we are with our throw away culture. All the bags of plastic, the couches was beyond grotesque to see; sad and depressing, more like.





Just one little gem. Ah, I love this park,