World Oceans Day -- a sad one

Cloud Magic

Acrylic on canvas

4 x 6 feet

Barbara Muir © 2018
(available --
email me at:
 barbara.muir@sympatico.ca)

On this World Oceans Day one of the bravest champions of the environment,

Greta Thunberg, has been captured by the Israeli military off the coast

of Gaza.  She was travelling on a ship called the Madleen, which was a
sailing ship, bringing food to the starving inhabitants of Gaza.

If it is wrong to believe people -- children and their families -- should not
starve to death, then there is something horribly wrong with our world.
And of course there is.

If you know my work, you know that I love the oceans, 
and try to spend some time near the Atlantic ocean in Nova
Scotia every year.  The Maritimes have been a major focus
of my work for quite awhile, because I love that part of
our country so much.

This is certainly one of my favourite paintings. And I was
looking forward to World Oceans Day, which is today. But it
turns out to be a very sad day indeed. We have to take care of
our oceans, and we aren’t at the moment. And we have
to take care of the world's people, and quit creating wars, and 
even further polluting the air and water.  We're at a crisis point
environmentally.

When you think about whether, or not to buy that plastic one-use
water bottle, or the plastic balloons that last forever for your
friend's birthday -- think of alternatives. We have to save the
oceans.  And please sign the petitions to set Greta and her fellow
activists for peace, free.  

Take care of our oceans!