{"id":9030,"date":"2020-01-31T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/?page_id=9030"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:37:55","slug":"oe-index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/","title":{"rendered":"oe_index"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\r\nA<\/span> narchy<\/span>
\r\nB<\/span> ardistry<\/span>
\r\nC<\/span> reativity<\/span>
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Seeking the truth \u2026<\/span>
\r\nUnderstanding the way \u2026<\/span>
\r\nInventing the path \u2026<\/span>
\r\nFinding the wisdom \u2026<\/span>
\r\nTelling the story \u2026<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Stories<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Adventures<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n
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A<\/span> narchy<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> a state in which people are free equals with no domination, oppression, central authority, or law<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n P<\/span> hilosophy<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the study of the nature of existence, knowledge, thought, and ethics<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n E<\/span> cosophy<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> wisdom-spirituality of the earth<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Inspirations<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\u201cThe duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nUrsula K. Le Guin from The Dispossessed<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n\u201cAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n\u201cDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/span>
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\u201cAnarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, \u2018Freedom.\u2019 Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nLucy Parsons from Freedom, Equality & Solidarity \u2013 Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n\u201cI think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries\u2014the realists of a larger reality.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nUrsula K. Le Guin<\/span><\/span>
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Experiences<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n
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B<\/span> ardistry<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the creation and telling of stories<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n S<\/span> tory<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> a narrative, true or fictitious, prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the audience<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n M<\/span> ythography<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the creation or collection of myths in artistic form<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n F<\/span> antasy<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> imagination unrestricted by reality<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Histories<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\u201cA story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; it takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer\u2019s job is to be its medium.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nUrsula K. Le Guin<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n\u201cFantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nUrsula K. Le Guin<\/span><\/span>
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\u201cSee me as the Sun on the mountaintop,
\r\nFeel me in the power of the seas.
\r\nHear me in the laughter of the stream,
\r\nPower of nature, power of the trees.
\r\nHear me in the howling of the wolf,
\r\nMy voice is the song of the Bards,
\r\nI am the power that helps the salmon leap,
\r\nI am the very first breath of a child.
\r\nI am the wild, and I am the tame,
\r\nI am the calm and I am the storm.
\r\nI am the sound of your beating heart,
\r\nI am your blood and I am your bone.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nDamh the Bard from The Song of Awen<\/span><\/span> <\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Creations<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n
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C<\/span> reativity<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the act of turning original and imaginative ideas into reality<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n E<\/span> piphany<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> a sudden and profound understanding or inspiration; Awen<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n I<\/span> magery<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the ability to form mental images of things or events<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n A<\/span> rtistry<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> creative skill, ability, or imagination<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Wonders<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\u201cI went out to the hazel wood,
\r\nBecause a fire was in my head,
\r\nAnd cut and peeled a hazel wand,
\r\nAnd hooked a berry to a thread;
\r\nAnd when white moths were on the wing,
\r\nAnd moth-like stars were flickering out,
\r\nI dropped the berry in a stream
\r\nAnd caught a little silver trout.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nWilliam Butler Yeats from The Song of Wandering Aengus<\/span><\/span>
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\u201cThe well of Segais is surrounded by the nine hazels of inspiration. The hazelnuts ripen and fall into the pool, where the salmon eats them. She cracks their shells, which stain the waters of the well purple. The empty shells float off down the five streams that flow from the well to give poetic inspiration \u2013 what druids call Awen. The five streams are the five senses through which humans perceive the world.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nFrom Cormac\u2019s adventure in the Land of Promise as described by Alferian Gwydion MacLir<\/span><\/span> <\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n
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E<\/span> rosophy<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the interested, passionate, embodied love of wisdom<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n E<\/span> cology<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the study of the relations between living organisms and their environment<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n I<\/span> ngenuity<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the power of creative imagination<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>
\r\n S<\/span> agacity<\/span> <\/span>  \u2013 n.<\/em> the quality of being wise or having good judgment<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Discoveries<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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For anyone who has ever gazed with child-like wonder into a tidepool:<\/span>
\r\n\u201cThere are good things to see in tidepools and there are exciting and interesting thoughts to be generated from the seeing. Every new eye applied to the peep hole which looks out at the world may fish in some new beauty and some new pattern, and the world of the human mind must be enriched by such fishing.\u201d<\/i>
\r\nJohn Steinbeck, in the forward from Between Pacific Tides<\/span><\/span> <\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bt-no-sidebar-bb.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9030","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14179,"href":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9030\/revisions\/14179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}