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Authors: Jack Canfield
Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul
Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover’s Soul
CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE
OCEAN LOVER’S
SOUL
Amazing Sea Stories and Wyland
Artwork to Open the Heart and
Rekindle the Spirit
Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
Wyland
with Steve Creech
Health Communications, Inc.
Deerfield Beach, Florida
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chicken soup for the ocean lover’s soul : amazing sea stories and Wyland artwork to open the heart and rekindle the spirit / [compiled by] Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Wyland, Steve Creech.
p. cm.
eISBN-13: 978-0-7573-9400-3
eISBN-10: 0-7573-9400-0
1. Marine animals—Anecdotes. 2. Human-animal relationships—Anecdotes. 3. Ocean—Psychological aspects. I. Canfield, Jack date. II. Hansen, Mark Victor. III. Wyland, date. IV. Steve Creech, date.
QL121.C45 2003
508.3162—dc21
2003051125
© 2003 Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.
HCI, its Logos and Marks are trademarks of Health Communications, Inc.
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
3201 S.W. 15th Street
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442-8190
R-11-06
Original paintings on cover and insides by Wyland ©2003
Cover design by Larissa Hise Henoch
Inside formatting by Dawn Von Strolley Grove
W
e dedicate this book
to ocean lovers everywhere . . .
T
o our parents who taught us lessons of life among
the beaches, tide pools and rolling waves . . .
T
o the scientists who have guided us . . .
A
nd, finally, to the writers, poets and
artists who remind us that as much
as we know, the sea will always remain,
first and foremost, a place of
infinite beauty and mystery.
Warm Tropical Paradise
Original painting by Wyland © 2003.
Contents
Raising Cecily
Nan Lincoln
Surrogate Mom and Pup
Roxayne Spruance and Michelle Staedler
Hooked on Mahogany
Mike Lipstock
Picasso of the Sea
Wyland
The Blind Diver
Joycebelle Edelbrock
In Harmony
Martha Gusukuma-Donnenfield
Encounter with a Sperm Whale
Gaie Alling
Swimming Surprise
Joseph Hallstein
If You Could Touch a Whale
Paula McDonald
Back to Sea . . . the Story of J. J.
Jack Hanna
Keiko the Whale
Wyland
Angus
Florian Graner
Sound Behavior
Abby Murray
Anna’s Miracle
Linda Schnecker Erb
Manatee Tranquility
Paul Dragon as told to Steve Creech
The Art of Healing
Wyland
A Signal Is Worth a Thousand Words
Linda Schnecker Erb
The Fishermen
Stephen Byrne
A Day on the New Hampshire Shore
Nicole-René Rivette
Guided Tour
Nathan S. Woods
A Forever Ocean View
Liz Zuercher
Crab Lessons
Jennifer Zambri-Dickerson
Ebb and Flow
Eve Eschner Hogan
The Friendly Isle
Tal Aviezer with Jason Cocovinis
Dream Vacation
Jennifer Lowry
Letters
Michael Geers
Goddess
Danette Rivera
The Guide
Wyland
Octopus’s Garden
Eve Eschner Hogan
I Found a Tiny Starfish
Dayle Ann Dodds
After the Beach
Nancy V. Bennett
Sea Dog
Jon L. Rishi
What Do You See?
Gary Riedel
A Lesson from the Sea
Walker Meade
A Prayer for the Ocean
Wyland
The Perfect Shell
Jennifer Zambri-Dickerson
The Day at the Beach
Arthur Gordon
Octopus Odyssey
Mike Lipstock
The Sea and the Wind That Blows
E. B. White
The Driftwood Queen
Anne Carter
A Sign of Love
Warren Iliff
Sand Castles
Max Lucado
Sea of Curiosity
Dr. Sylvia A. Earle
Who’s Watching Who?
Joe Moran
The Jonah Factor
Mark Conlin
Strange Discovery
Steve Creech
Close Encounter of the Squid Kind
Mark Conlin
Finding His Way Home
Clive Cussler
Eyes in the Dark
Thor Heyerdahl
The Specialist
Dr. Sylvia A. Earle
Fred’s Big Adventure
Mark Conlin
Last One Standing
Phil Lansing
Geriatric Genocide
Warren Miller
A Shot at the Title
Jim Kravets
Father Time
Matt Walker
Surfer
Mark Twain
Two Battleships
Maurice Ricketts
The Bond Between a Captain and His Ship
Vincent Gaddis
Sailsmanship!
Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo
First Homecoming
Leslie Smith
Lost in the Atlantic
Deborah Morris
One Hundred and One Atlantic Nights
Jan Meek with Daniel Byles
as told to Janet Matthews
A Miracle Between Sea and Land
Alan Ebert
Pedaling over the Atlantic
Jamie Kageleiry
Fear of the Unknown
Maggie Stapp-Hempen
Exploring the Sunken Wreck
Dr. Robert D. Ballard
Using His Teeth
Lester David
This Magic Moment
Jennifer Anderson
A New Dawn for Whaling in Taiji
Wyland
Fighting for Their Lives
Maris Sidenstecker
Everything I Needed to Know About the Ocean
I Learned in the Second Grade
Wyland
Do You Hear It?
Tiffany Pope
Life Imitates Art
Wyland
The Wyland Foundation and Wyland Ocean Challenge
This book would never have come to be without the input of thousands of ocean lovers from as far away as New Zealand, Ireland, Iceland, Mexico, Norway, Canada, England, South Africa, Germany and Australia. It seemed as we were developing this book that ocean lovers knew neither political nor geographic boundaries, not even in the heartland of America, and flooded us with marvelous stories of experiences with sea life and family seaside vacations.
But beyond those who submitted such incredible stories, there are many, many more people to be thanked, without whom the completion of
Chicken Soup for the Ocean
Lover’s Soul
would never have occurred.
To Jacques Cousteau, who inspired the career of Wyland and a whole generation of people to care about ocean conservation.
To ocean icons like Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Bob Ballard, Dr. Roger Payne, Lloyd Bridges, Sir Peter Blake, Bob Hunter and many others who have dedicated their lives to preserving the world’s oceans. They are certainly among the more visible advocates for ocean awareness, but many more conservation organizations support them. We hope you will lend your support by giving generously to their campaigns.
We would like to thank the Wyland Foundation for bridging the worlds of art and science, and working with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Birch Aquarium on a world-class, clean-water curriculum to be presented to 60 million students in the coming year. To the board of directors of the Wyland Foundation for ten great years and the many Wyland Foundation members who give unselfishly of their time and energy to help with its programs.
Wyland would like to personally express his great debt to the many scientists who have worked with him over the years, instilling in him a passion for sharing his message
of ocean conservation and art with the world.