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Hi there!  Pardon me while I catch up on my blog hopping and my comment answering!  I’m getting there friends!  Meanwhile – someone posted this in a group and I so loved it I had to share with all of you:

The Whale

A female  humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.

She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat.

She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralon Islands (outside the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge) and radioed for assistance.

Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined she was so bad off that the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her – a very dangerous proposition.  One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.

The worked for hours with carved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.

She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged and pushed them gently – as if to thank each one.

The rescuer that cut the rope out of her mouth said her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so fortunate – to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled form the things that are binding you.

And may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.

I pass this on to you, my friend, in the same spirit.

(from an email titled “Do They Understand?”)