We had a rope rigged with knots so that we would have quicker access to the deck. I grabbed the rope to pull myself up to get to the deck. As I was doing so, a wave tilted the boat sideways. Covered in fish slime, my hands slipped off the rope, and I fell overboard.

I was staying in an open-air Balinese style hut overlooking the ocean in Hawaii. One night, I was peacefully reading a book in bed when I heard a loud thunderous roar. Startled, I bolted upright, jumped out of bed, and peered into the night. The sound seemed to emanate from mere hundreds of yards away.

The news media tends to focus on natural disasters, wars and chaos, making it easy to forget that equally dynamic and positive events continually happen. One such event invites you to not only have a critical eye of the plastics and death traps in our oceans, but also to open your heart and feel the joy of rescuing a magnificent creature.

Like humans and animals, plants emit and react to energy. The following story profoundly demonstrates this scientifically proven fact. Many years ago, in what seems like another lifetime,