Life Is A Beach

By Joe Ingino Editor/Publisher ACCOMPLISHED WRITER/AUTHOR OF OVER 800,000 Published Columns in Canada and The United States “I live a dream in a nightmare world” Always Remember That The cosmic blueprint of your life was written in code across the sky at the moment you were born. Decode Your Life By Living It Without Regret or Sorrow. - ONE DAY AT A TIME - How times have changed. I remember as a kid going to the beach and looking for the many flags posted along the coast line. Green meant low surf, yellow medium surf, red meant do not go in. The biggest danger was that if you swam during a red flag that there was a good chance you get pulled out to ocean. For those wondering. I was born in Uruguay, South America. A place where clouds are as rare as ugly women. The beach was a great place to sit around and sun tan. Take a swim in the salty ocean water. Now don’t get me wrong. On the occasion they would post double red flags... this was normally due to flooding up the Rio De LaPlata that connected to the Amazon, hundreds of miles to the north in Brazil. When it would flood. The access water would run off into the Oshawa with severe force. At times taking all kinds of animals with it. Including snakes and all kind of God’s creatures. Most would die once they hit the salt water... As a journalist, I sit here in Canada and read all the beach closings. My first thoughts, snakes, caimans (alligators)... I remember the red flags warning of high surf and danger of being taken out to the ocean. No, instead. Here in Canada, we have to worry about catching something from the so called fresh water lake. We have to worry about needles, cigarette buts and as reported in Wassaga beach human excrement buried in the not so white sand. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am a proud Canadian. I am not complaining about Canada. I am complaining at the deterioration of the quality of our water. Red flag or beach closure here could technically mean you will catch some sort fungal infection. Let’s look beyond the algae, the bio-hazard material in our so called pure fresh water lakes... This is the same water we drink. This is the same water we bathe. This is the same water we pee and poo in. This is the same water that when you die they drain your blood into. Surely, they purify it.... The question in my mind. How long, how many times can you purify waste water before it you are just purifying waste. Drinking waste, bathing in waste? Tricky question. Scientist would argue... you can do that forever... Well, I am hard press to believe that. Think about it. The liquid may be the same. The composition similar. But much like in the human DNA. Does exposure over time not change it’s fundamental building blocks. We are humans. We are composed of the same compound with the DNA coding that makes who we are. Then let’s ask this question. If we are what we were. They why do we have so many different weakness in our immune system. In our ability to fight off disease? Society you say? I say malarkey.