Invitation to memorial service for California gray whales - July 20

[Larry Robinson]

Dear friends,
	As you may know, over 70 gray whales have washed up dead on the Pacific shores this year, 13 of them in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most have died of starvation, some by collision with ships.
	My heart is breaking as we witness what may be the beginning of the end of this magnificent species that has shared this planet with us for as long as we have been human. Our world will be a poorer place without them.
	My friends Doug von Koss, Francis and Judith Weller, Elizabeth Herron and I are planning a memorial service and grief ritual for the whales July 20 at a beach in Sonoma County. We don’t know the time or specific location yet, but will let you know soon. If you are touched as we are by this tragedy we invite you to join us. 
In solidarity with all beings,
Larry





Dying Thoughts Of A Beached Whale

I lie resting half into the sand
And she pulses against me
As softly as the edge of the sea
Envelopes the edge of the land; 

She pushes but never overmounts 
My naked flank like a rock
Or the sunken support of a dock
Stuck just where the tide runs out

And the blank dark ceiling above
Shows vision and memory
That astrology and astronomy
Reveal, but these are alive with love. 

	 - Christopher Woodall
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