The respect for nature grows with each breath on the World Team journey. I continue to learn from dolphins, even when self-isolating in this large home, on this small island off of Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA.
My writer’s retreat was meant to go into the early months of 2020. This retreat, now hermitage, or imposed self-isolation, began when I couldn’t return to Fiji. I wasn’t able to make the flight from California to Fiji because of my lung’s ability to heal— to take a deep breath from the smoke of fires in CA 2019.
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Henrietta, a regular visitor |

I’ve yet to be certain what took me down and at the beginning of COVID19, the State of Florida was late to have the testing. Did I have a cold? Was it pneumonia, bronchitis, or COVID19? Whatever I had, it was a challenge that lasted a month, ultimately with most all of the COVID19 symptoms.
As a visitor to the State of Florida, I called the Department of Health (DoH) to finally venture out to get the test and received instead an order to “self-isolate,” as they didn’t have the needed antibody test. I learned from the DoH that it was too great of a risk to both my health and the health of others to leave the property.
The “Stay Home” mantra, began to challenge me coming into week four. I remember in being human we are each unique, we each sometimes respond differently to the same thing based on our immune systems. But we do have our breath in common, and this home, as mentioned in World Team’s Universal Declaration.

One dolphin actually came to me, during this recovery time, when I couldn’t go into the water. I had just begun to go outside to walk on the private property out on to the dock that extends from the home yard to the water for a “self-isolated” communion with nature.
Swimming with dolphins in the wild in different parts of the world for decades the name, “The Dolphin Lady” became an alias. I feel most at home floating in the ocean, and often when I float the dolphins come, as if “called”.
There are learning and deep observation from the grace of bio-mimicry medicine offered out for all to consider from the dolphin’s breathing.
We can learn a lot from dolphins. Dolphins stay underwater, and just when one wonders where they will rise— surprise! The dolphin breaks the surface from the depths, breaching up to move in new ways.

Nei Kung is the single most important element I do now related to breath. Tai Chi offers this fundamental principle with exercises unlike any other form of movement from my experience, as it is conscious. The importance of weights for the bones and muscular skeleton, Nei Kung is fundamental to understanding the energy of the body (Chi) with breath (as is singing)! And how the Chi can be used for self-healing, which may be the highest form of self-defense, immunity!
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Visiting the Ocean before Retreat |
I wish we could just “Pass Over” and skip the global #Pandemic #COVID19 #CycloneHarold #Catagory5 aka #TCHarold #LocustsEastAfrica #GlobalCacophony #EconomicCollaspse #GeoPoliticalConflict #TradeWars #5GControversy #ConspiracyTheories and fast forward to collective systems’ transformation to the part where we all rise together? What is the role of the UN, the SDGs the global goals? And US, the people around the world?
The present realities require us all to give our all— to collectively embrace the elephant in the room, related to what many call the #ClimateCrisis, but really it is a collective inquiry— how does humanity live in balance with nature, including our own human nature for the future we want, together with systems ready for transformation?
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Mangroves Save the Island |
It’s a lifetime of learning in observing dolphins, their capacity to love, to breathe and to teach. May we each prioritize both personal and collective transformation until we can live in a better balance with nature and when it is time, ALL RISE!
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