El Ojo de la Ballena\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0 The Eye of the Whale<\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FinThomson1.jpg\")
<\/a>Ballena aleta
Justin Thompson<\/p><\/div>\n
Hace cuarenta y seis a\u00f1os yo era investigador de ballenas en el Golfo de St Laurent, Quebec, Canad\u00e1. Despu\u00e9s de seis meses de estudiar ballenas, diecis\u00e9is horas al d\u00eda, las ballenas empezaron a visitarme en mi sue\u00f1os. Tuve el mismo sue\u00f1o tres veces ese verano.<\/p>\n
Yo estaba en la playa,
\n<\/em>y una ballena aleta nad\u00f3 hacia mi
\ny su enorme cabeza se levant\u00f3<\/em> del agua. <\/em><\/p>\nRecuerdo que su ojo me miraba, muy intensamente. No era un sue\u00f1o ordinario, sino como una visi\u00f3n. Tuve la impresi\u00f3n de que la ballena me estaba llamando.<\/p>\n
Forty-six years ago I was a whale researcher in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. After six months of studying whales sixteen hours a day, the whales started visiting me in my dreams. I had the same dream three times that summer. I was at the beach and a fin whale swam towards me and his enormous head raised up from the water.<\/em><\/p>\nI remember its eye looked at me very intensely. It was not an ordinary dream, but like a vision. I had the impression that the whale was calling me.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/GettingToKnoWhales-1024x783.jpg\")
<\/a>El\u00a0 libro sobre las ballenas<\/p><\/div>\n
Hace veinticinco a\u00f1os, escrib\u00ed un libro sobre ballenas. Las ballenas estaban todav\u00eda en mi coraz\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/p>\nTwenty-five years ago, I wrote a book about whales. The whales were still in my heart.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1110242.jpg\")
<\/a>La Ant\u00e1rtida est\u00e1 llamando<\/span>….<\/p><\/div>\nHace seis a\u00f1os fui a la Ant\u00e1rtida con un grupo espiritual. En La Ant\u00e1rtida muchas\u00a0\u00a0 ballenas fueron matado por los balleneros. Este incluye m\u00e1s de doscientas mil ballenas azules, los animales m\u00e1s grandes del mundo.\u00a0 Yo siento mucha verguenza debido a un acto tan indiferente. A veces, lo encuentro dif\u00edcil ser un humano.<\/p>\n
Six years ago, I went to Antarctica with a spiritual group. In Antarctica, many whales were killed by whalers. This includes more than two hundred thousand blue whales, the largest animals in the world. I feel a lot shame because of such an uncaring act. At times I find it hard to be a human.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whaleovens.jpg\")
<\/a>Hornos grande donde la grasa de las ballenas se estaba cocinada<\/p><\/div>\n
Visitamos dos estaciones balleneras que ya no funcionaba (cerca de 1920). Yo ve\u00eda los hornos grande donde la grasa de las ballenas se estaba cocinada en aceite de las ballenas. Con horror, me di cuenta de lo que se estaba viendo y llor\u00e9 incontrolablemente. La energ\u00eda del asesinato estaba todav\u00eda ah\u00ed despu\u00e9s de cien a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n
We visited two non-functioning whaling stations (cerca de 1920). I saw the ovens where the fat of the whales was cooked into whale oil. With horror, I realized what I was seeing and I cried uncontrollably. The energy of murder was still there after one hundred years.<\/em><\/p>\nThere were whale bones on the beach. I felt the agony of the whales that were murdered there. When a whale was killed the water was red with its blood. The Earth was wounded and we prayed to free the pain.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/whalebones.jpg\")
<\/a>huesos de las ballenas<\/p><\/div>\n
Hab\u00edan los huesos de las ballenas en la playa. Sent\u00ed la agon\u00eda de las ballenas que asesinaban ah\u00ed. Cuando una ballena fue mataban, el agua se te\u00f1ia de rojo con su sangre. La Tierra fue herida y nosotros rezamos para liberar el dolor.<\/p>\n
Huesos de las ballenas en la playa
\nGenocidio
\nHace muchos a\u00f1os
\nTodav\u00eda, el aire ol\u00edo de agon\u00eda.
\nHumanos aspiran el dolor
\nHumanos respiran esperanza
\nLas l\u00e1grimas caen en la arena
\nQuitando la mancha de la Tierra
\nCurando
\na ballenas y humanos.<\/em><\/p>\nThere were whale bones on the beach. I felt the agony of the whales that were murdered there. When a whale was killed the water was red with its blood. The Earth was wounded and we prayed to free the pain.<\/em><\/p>\nWhale bones on the beach<\/em>
\nGenocide<\/em>
\nMany years ago<\/em>
\nStill the air smelled of agony<\/em>
\nHumans breathe in the pain<\/em>
\nHumans breathe out hope<\/em>
\nTears fall on the sand<\/em>
\nRemoving the stain on the Earth<\/em>
\nHealing<\/em>
\nFor whales and humans<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1.jpeg\")
<\/a>Ballenas Jorobada
Photo by Jane Ball<\/p><\/div>\n
Esa noche,hab\u00eda m\u00e1s de cincuenta ballenas jorobada cerca de nuestro barco. Hubo una celebraci\u00f3n grandiosa de la vida por las ballenas y los humanos.<\/p>\n
Para me la experiencia en la Ant\u00e1rtida complet\u00f3 un ciclo que comenz\u00f3 hace muchos a\u00f1os con el sue\u00f1o del ‘ojo de la ballena’.<\/p>\n
That night there were more than fifty humpback whales near our boat. It was a huge celebration for the life of whales and humans.<\/em><\/p>\nFor me, the experience in Antarctica completed a cycle that began many years ago with the dream of the \u2018eye of the whale\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yo asist\u00eda a Espa\u00f1ol Interactivo, una escuela immers\u00edon en San Andr\u00e9s Huayapam, M\u00e9xico en el estado de Oaxaca. Yo escrib\u00ed esta historia mientras estuve estudiando all\u00ed. I attended Espa\u00f1ol Interactivo, an immersion school in San Andreas Huayapam in the state … Continue reading
<\/a>Ballena aleta
Justin Thompson<\/p><\/div>\n
Hace cuarenta y seis a\u00f1os yo era investigador de ballenas en el Golfo de St Laurent, Quebec, Canad\u00e1. Despu\u00e9s de seis meses de estudiar ballenas, diecis\u00e9is horas al d\u00eda, las ballenas empezaron a visitarme en mi sue\u00f1os. Tuve el mismo sue\u00f1o tres veces ese verano.<\/p>\n
Yo estaba en la playa, Recuerdo que su ojo me miraba, muy intensamente. No era un sue\u00f1o ordinario, sino como una visi\u00f3n. Tuve la impresi\u00f3n de que la ballena me estaba llamando.<\/p>\n Forty-six years ago I was a whale researcher in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. After six months of studying whales sixteen hours a day, the whales started visiting me in my dreams. I had the same dream three times that summer. I was at the beach and a fin whale swam towards me and his enormous head raised up from the water.<\/em><\/p>\n I remember its eye looked at me very intensely. It was not an ordinary dream, but like a vision. I had the impression that the whale was calling me.<\/em><\/p>\n El\u00a0 libro sobre las ballenas<\/p><\/div>\n Hace veinticinco a\u00f1os, escrib\u00ed un libro sobre ballenas. Las ballenas estaban todav\u00eda en mi coraz\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/p>\n Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a book about whales. The whales were still in my heart.<\/em><\/p>\n La Ant\u00e1rtida est\u00e1 llamando<\/span>….<\/p><\/div>\n Hace seis a\u00f1os fui a la Ant\u00e1rtida con un grupo espiritual. En La Ant\u00e1rtida muchas\u00a0\u00a0 ballenas fueron matado por los balleneros. Este incluye m\u00e1s de doscientas mil ballenas azules, los animales m\u00e1s grandes del mundo.\u00a0 Yo siento mucha verguenza debido a un acto tan indiferente. A veces, lo encuentro dif\u00edcil ser un humano.<\/p>\n Six years ago, I went to Antarctica with a spiritual group. In Antarctica, many whales were killed by whalers. This includes more than two hundred thousand blue whales, the largest animals in the world. I feel a lot shame because of such an uncaring act. At times I find it hard to be a human.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hornos grande donde la grasa de las ballenas se estaba cocinada<\/p><\/div>\n Visitamos dos estaciones balleneras que ya no funcionaba (cerca de 1920). Yo ve\u00eda los hornos grande donde la grasa de las ballenas se estaba cocinada en aceite de las ballenas. Con horror, me di cuenta de lo que se estaba viendo y llor\u00e9 incontrolablemente. La energ\u00eda del asesinato estaba todav\u00eda ah\u00ed despu\u00e9s de cien a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n We visited two non-functioning whaling stations (cerca de 1920). I saw the ovens where the fat of the whales was cooked into whale oil. With horror, I realized what I was seeing and I cried uncontrollably. The energy of murder was still there after one hundred years.<\/em><\/p>\n There were whale bones on the beach. I felt the agony of the whales that were murdered there. When a whale was killed the water was red with its blood. The Earth was wounded and we prayed to free the pain.<\/em><\/p>\n huesos de las ballenas<\/p><\/div>\n Hab\u00edan los huesos de las ballenas en la playa. Sent\u00ed la agon\u00eda de las ballenas que asesinaban ah\u00ed. Cuando una ballena fue mataban, el agua se te\u00f1ia de rojo con su sangre. La Tierra fue herida y nosotros rezamos para liberar el dolor.<\/p>\n Huesos de las ballenas en la playa There were whale bones on the beach. I felt the agony of the whales that were murdered there. When a whale was killed the water was red with its blood. The Earth was wounded and we prayed to free the pain.<\/em><\/p>\n Whale bones on the beach<\/em> Ballenas Jorobada Esa noche,hab\u00eda m\u00e1s de cincuenta ballenas jorobada cerca de nuestro barco. Hubo una celebraci\u00f3n grandiosa de la vida por las ballenas y los humanos.<\/p>\n Para me la experiencia en la Ant\u00e1rtida complet\u00f3 un ciclo que comenz\u00f3 hace muchos a\u00f1os con el sue\u00f1o del ‘ojo de la ballena’.<\/p>\n That night there were more than fifty humpback whales near our boat. It was a huge celebration for the life of whales and humans.<\/em><\/p>\n For me, the experience in Antarctica completed a cycle that began many years ago with the dream of the \u2018eye of the whale\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yo asist\u00eda a Espa\u00f1ol Interactivo, una escuela immers\u00edon en San Andr\u00e9s Huayapam, M\u00e9xico en el estado de Oaxaca. Yo escrib\u00ed esta historia mientras estuve estudiando all\u00ed. I attended Espa\u00f1ol Interactivo, an immersion school in San Andreas Huayapam in the state … Continue reading
\n<\/em>y una ballena aleta nad\u00f3 hacia mi
\ny su enorme cabeza se levant\u00f3<\/em> del agua. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>
\nGenocidio
\nHace muchos a\u00f1os
\nTodav\u00eda, el aire ol\u00edo de agon\u00eda.
\nHumanos aspiran el dolor
\nHumanos respiran esperanza
\nLas l\u00e1grimas caen en la arena
\nQuitando la mancha de la Tierra
\nCurando
\na ballenas y humanos.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGenocide<\/em>
\nMany years ago<\/em>
\nStill the air smelled of agony<\/em>
\nHumans breathe in the pain<\/em>
\nHumans breathe out hope<\/em>
\nTears fall on the sand<\/em>
\nRemoving the stain on the Earth<\/em>
\nHealing<\/em>
\nFor whales and humans<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
Photo by Jane Ball<\/p><\/div>\n