Friday, September 28, 2007

Fish fertilizer

By Erika

Community: North Coast

Everyone knows that fish fertilizer is the best stuff going.

Having grown up on one island or another along our beautiful BC coastline - I never really had to spend much time thinking about how important salmon are to this place and people!

When I did start really thinking about it, I realized that the wealth of life - lush temperate rainforests and the abundance that depends upon it - all come back to the salmon. Particularly that most undervalued of creatures - the pink salmon.

I am grateful to the salmon in a way that cannot be expressed in words. Even the salmon image tatooed into my flesh and engraved on my wedding band cannot begin to express how deeply I feel connected to this place - connected by an umbilicus of flashing silver, blue, and green.

These fish have fertilized me and my family! I only hope that I am worthy of their energy and can pay them back!


Posted by Erika on 9/28/07

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At 7:12 pm on 8/04/11, iphone releases said:

iPhones are not cheap. Alternatively you might just switch back to an old phone - but in this case you would end up losing all of your stored data from the phone and that would mean your contacts, your pictures and all your downloaded apps which you possibly also spent a fair bit on.

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