Omg I have to pick a favourite HNT for this year. Fook me sideways thats hard.
This year has been such a roller coaster and so many things I wanted to share and write
about that trying to pick just one image, well shit, it ain’t happening.
I may well do this again in 2010 …

If you want to know which HNT it was that was the most special for me ….?
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I remember as a child going to an aquarium that had a dolphin in a pool. I remember walking down into a concrete tunnel and peering through a glass window and seeing this dolphin staring back at me. I have always been haunted by the sadness I felt. As a child all I knew that this was wrong. It didn’t feel right. For years I forgot about it and every now and then I would remember this. I have never seen nor had an urge to see a dolphin in captivity ever again. I don’t understand why one would think that was normal. It’s the same as zoo’s. It isn’t their natural habitats. I don’t give a rats ass about ‘educating’ people. It’s a load of bollocks. You learn more being in their own environments not our man made ones.

Tonight I watched The Cove. About 23,000 dolphins, porpoises and other small whales are killed in Japan every year, making it the largest scale slaughter of cetaceans in the world. I have tears. It’s absolutely horrid. Dolphins like many other species of animals on this earth are a gift. They are not there for our amusement nor our monetary greed. This is human greed at it’s worst.

You can watch it below.

As a writer I have a voice and I don’t know how many of you are aware of what goes on in this small fishing village in Japan but I know that it’s important that people need to know. I want my child and his children to grow up enjoying these beautiful creatures that grace our planet.

The majority of people in Japan have no idea this goes on. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening as the Taiji cove is blocked off from the public. The slaughtered dolphins are processed into meat and distributed to supermarkets throughout Japan for human consumption. Dolphin meat from drive hunts in Taiji proved to be highly contaminated with toxic chemicals such as mercury, methyl mercury and PCBs. Some of the dolphin meat is given to children as part of their school lunch program. The Japanese government and the supermarkets issue no warning that dolphin meat is mercury-contaminated. The fishermen of Taiji have told us that the Japanese people have no right to know about the dolphin hunt or the high levels of mercury found in the meat.

The dolphin hunt in Japan is supported by people from the international dolphinarium industry. The annual dolphin slaughter provides an easy way for dolphinariums to obtain young, unblemished dolphins, suitable for commercial exploitation in captive dolphin shows and swim-with-dolphins programs.

What can you do? Watch the documentary. Spread the word.

Sign the petition.

Every single person who takes action be it small or big can help.

That’s one of many New Years Resolutions to myself this year.

Take action.

So are you going to do something to start the new year in that isn’t self gratifying?

I dare you. It takes a few minutes of your day to do something selfless.

I want to write I do.

I want to pour my heart out onto these pages but I am guarded more than ever.

Fear grips me well and truly. I hate it.

It’s when a raven comes along and starts poking it’s beak at her exterior she starts to crumble a little and then shes left wondering how much the raven will poke before she submits to something she is not quite sure of the path it will take. When the wolf may well roll over and give in. If only for brief moments the curiosity is there and the puzzlement of why the raven has that effect on her. Sometimes people cross your paths in life and there is an instant understanding that does not need to be spoken. Sometimes there’s just confusion. Sometimes there are other things that can affect a path.

Sometimes logic prevails and you see things for what they are and realise it’s far too much to deal with and you don’t even know how to.

As much as another is pushing me to speak I cannot.

Other factors, lessons to be learnt that are not your own but others. Frustrating and at the same time a sense of annoyance.

A wolf stands at the edge of the forest, watching and waiting. She resigns herself to sit quietly with a sigh.

She is there, she is loyal, shes not going anywhere but she is quiet and resigned.

Still it’s not easy, there is a sense of not quite loss but something is changing not for one but a few.

Maybe I am the only one who sees it. But I know I am not. Words are spoken and I understand it is not only my frustration.

But even if I do speak I know it will not be me that can change things. That part is not mine to own.

Either way I don’t like this space I am in.

Trust in the process.

Something has changed and shes not quite sure what or how but she doesn’t like it.

She misses her friend.