"One Radical and Tactical Shift"

Will is one of the many facebook friends I can now lean on to 

post good and valuable information so that when I scan my

news feed I am enlivened with interesting possibilities and

informative opportunities.  As I routinely selected and

eliminated the negative gripers and woe is me-ers from

my everyday interactions (yes I do indeed work my privacy

settings!) that news feed has become a source of information

 that lightens and inspires me.  I am now quite a fan of good

 and judicious sharing through social networks. 

Today I clicked on a TED video that Will posted about this

fellow who swam across a newly created lake on Mount

Everest...a lake created as the result of glacial melt.

At the end of his talk, Lewis offers a challenge to each and every one

of us - an opportunity to leave the world a better place for our children

as a result of our own choices today.

Highlighting the man, his acumen and his mission seemed

the right stuff for The Hundredth Monkey view.

Lewis Gordon Pugh loves to pioneer new swimming

routes around or between landmarks once thought unswimmable.

 In 2006, he swam the drought-stricken Thames; also that year

he became the first swimmer to do a long-distance swim in all

five oceans of the world. The following year, he made the first

long-distance swim across the North Pole -- where climate

change made the ice temporarily disappear. Heading into the

second decade of his swimming career, he's regarded as the

greatest cold-water swimmer in history. 

His swims have given him a sea-level view of our planet,

and inspired him to do his bit to help preserve it. He left a

career in maritime law to become a public speaker on

environmental issues with his group, Polar Defence Project –

and of course to plan more astonishing swims and treks.

In September 2008, Pugh and Robbie Hedgus kayaked

across the Arctic Ocean into the polar ice pack, to raise

awareness of the thinning sea ice and the dangers of

climate change in the Arctic and across the world. And at t

he end of May 2010 he swam 1 kilometer across Pumori,

a meltwater lake situated next to the Khumbu Glacier on Mount

Everest, at an altitude of 5300 meters, to draw attention to the

melting of the Asian glaciers. He completed the swim -- the

highest any person has undertaken -- in less than 23 minutes. He says:

 "Glaciers are not just ice:

they are a lifeline, 

they provide water to 2 billion people,

and we need to protect them" 

Here's a link to the talk - an inspiring time out for you to view and ponder.

Lewis Pugh Mind Shifting Everest Swim

What did you come up with that you can commit to?

May it be a blessing to all,

namaste