As I gaze at this mesmerizing photo of a starfish attached to some coral, I can’t help but feel a burst of joy. I see two precious species that make up our wild planet and love them at first glance.

(photo credit: The original uploader was Aquaimages at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 2.5)

This picture reveals such a glorious co-existence of this starfish that looks like it sits atop hundreds of tiny starfish, but those are the little ends of coral. There is one type of coral-eating starfish, but this is not one of them.

The beauty of life surrounds us in myriad ways and yet we have a group of inhumane people in the world that care more about money than they do about the gorgeous living things on our planet earth. How can that be so? How are their hearts so calcified that they do not hear the cries of our oceans, forests, rivers, deserts, lakes, and streams? In November of 2017, the United States became the sole country in the entire world that has rejected the Paris Climate Agreement.  Here is another article about Trump’s rejection and withdrawal from the treaty published in the Atlantic Monthly.

The beauty of our earth has become the playtoy and enrichment of one of the most horrible humans that has ever lived. This con man and his cabinet will go down in history as those that brought us to near extinction as they count their rubles while nature writhes in pain.

We must band together to help our planet, save our coral reefs, remove the tons of garbage from our oceans. Join the people at 4Oceans to remove the plastic from our oceans. Buy a bracelet to help clean our coastlines. The songs of life await us.

4Ocean is a global movement actively removing trash from the ocean and coastlines while inspiring individuals to work together for cleaner oceans, one pound at a time.

  I wait calmly and thank the universe every day for this life and the beauty that I see before me each day.