Is this great Spill in the Gulf really a baptism into New Time? Holy Water and Holy Oil -- the two sacred elements of the sacrament of Baptism in the Christian Church.

Is what is happening down there creating in us a new way of thinking about ourselves as 'the environment' we had thought was 'out there'?

We are the earth. Our bodies are the very minerals of this planet. And like the planet that is our mother, we are made up three-quarters of water.

Let us hope this horrific wake-up call shifts the perception in the Collective into remembering that we are living on an island in space, with an islander's responsibility to take good care of the ground beneath our feet...and the water around us, for that matter.