So some may call it Monday Madness, others Monday Mania and most people hate Mondays- just like Garfield did every Monday in the comics, but I have always loved Mondays, for it is a new and fresh day to do better than you did yesterday- last week.
It's your 'second' chance to improve things- whether that be you, your life, or the world. Either way, have another go, practice and as you all know, practice makes perfect.
And talking about practice, here I am practicing my skills at blogging on the #HiveBlockchain (blogging for the first time ever), in the #IamAliveChallenge created by the wonderful @ErikGussafson known far and wide as @Flaxz.
Now, if you want to know more about this warm and compassionate community then read more here @flaxz/glmrrjya and you're welcome to join in and share your stories, fears, dreams, successes and failures with all of us.
And a HUGE, big fat welcome to all of the adventurous people that have just joined us to #thriveOnHive! 😀 #Hive5 to you guys!
So I am so thankful to be alive while so many people all over the world are suffering for so many, many reasons, many are due to climate change, corruption within their governments, food shortages, hunger, drought, war, homelessness and too many other reasons that billions of people are suffering needlessly.
I also cry for the billions of imprisoned and tortured animals that are also unfairly suffering from all of the situations listed (amd many more), but also from the inhumane, agonising and terrifying deaths that they are bred for.
Billions of animals are needlessly slaughtered in the name of food, but yet billions of people all over the are starving and why?
Because millions of those slaughtered animals are thrown out. Literally dumped, buried and burnt alive in pits to rot.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/13/3000-sheep-die-after-live-exports-rejected-by-saudi-arabia this is just one of the many examples and Australia being one of the largest exporters in the world of Live animals (that are usually DISEASED AND DEAD by the time they get there...) has for many varied reason over the last few years, has had literal shiploads of animals being rejected and buried alive...
This is the excuse from the latest one just a few days ago... leaving some animals without vaccination against.... three diseases; HS (Hemorrhagic septicemia), PPR (Peste des petits ruminants) and Rift Valley fever. Anyone ever heard of Covid19?..... Perhaps Sars?... Or what about Mers....? To name but a few...
And then on top of that, is the unimaginable amount of wasted food from crops.
In fact, there is NO shortage of food, there is only a serious shortage of intelligence and compassion from the people that have the ability to dish out the food to the world that needs it.
Anyhooo, didn't plan on saying any of that at all, but there you have it. I am an animal lover and it it my sole purpose in life to help stop animal cruelty of every sort, to protect and preserve Mother Natures greatest treasures by creating awareness of, educating and enlightening humans about the plight of the animals that we all supposedly love so much.
There, I've said it. I AM an ANIMAL LOVER and ADVOCATE.
And I'm proud that I have found my purpose in life and nothing else matters.
Anyhooo, being an engaging kind of person, I have been engaged with these excellent posts from these brilliant #Hiveans and I would like to introduce you to them here in the #IAmEngagedChallenge tonight.
But before I do, I just thought that I'd pass along this link from @jeanlucsr about a great contest for the #JoinHive marketing video contest and you can check out the deets here! @hivepeople/win-100-usdhive-enter-joinhive-marketing-video-contest
So without further waffling from me, I would like to introduce you to these 5 awesome posts tonight from firstly @theterminal from the #foodiesBeehive Community who has announced the winners of the cookbook contest for this month- meaning that there's going to be another contest for next month and who knows- your delicious vegan recipe just might make it in there and change someones life- like an animals and even a human's @theterminal/winners-announcement-august-2020-favorite-entries-for-the-cookbook-contest-by-theterminal I know that a whole new universe of food and delicious dishes (plus more money in my pocket and a better heart beat) opened up to me when I stopped eating animals 10 yrs ago...
And then from the as always, #AmazingNature community, I would love to introduce you to @papilloncharity, who did something so simple, but so heroic for such a small but ecologically crucial character and you can see who he saved here @papilloncharity/saving-a-drowning-bee and if you were in the bees shoes, you would really appreciate the helping hand from a human too wouldn't you.
And did you know that @papilloncharity is also a A registered Non Profit with stunning successes in transforming the lives of the poor! Check them out here #papillonfoundation.com and see how you can help them help the people of South Africa!
And then here's @adalger with the new Amazing Nature Contest - August 2020 - #02 here @adalger/amazing-nature-contest-august-2020-02 and to join in, go to the post to participate in the #amazingnature contest just create a post that shows how amazing nature is for you personally. This can be anything from a beautiful flower or animal to an astonishing sunset.
And then we have some wonderful water babies here with @juanbg with his feature article on the The amazing spinner dolphin @juanbg/the-amazing-spinner-dolphin-some-characteristics and you can get to know him and his life's porpoise (🤣) here too @juanbg/a-proposal-for-science-our-ocean-needs-us
and then there's also the great article from @nockzonk with this very interesting read about Grey Seal's Around Newquay, Cornwall here @nockzonk/grey-seal-s-around-newquay-cornwall
Which reminds me...Poor baby seals... you know what they do with them up in Canada right....😳
And to leave you with a statement from Marisa my online QiGong master
today is the first day of the rest of your life.
And so please put yourself in someone else's shoes- or hooves, paws, claws, pads, feet, flippers or fins, feel life from their perspective and make good choices for your life as well as theirs and the future of your descendants and the health of this earth.
And so as always, I leave you with a photo that I took somewhere sometime...Actually, it's a Stingray at Kianinny Bay in Tathra in about 2015 that I took it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tathra,_New_South_Wales
Stay safe and stay well peeps. 😀
