About Social Seahorse Connections
Social Seahorse Connections magnifies remarkable people and organizations who are making social connections in the world today.
Within a world full of negative messaging, anxiety-inducing media, and daily pressures, are stunning examples of humanity connecting with one another in meaningful ways. This project amplifies those messages, highlighting people and organizations - from the well-known to the obscure – about whom the world needs to know.
You can expect with every profile a suggested action that you can apply to your own life to increase your social connections, impacting others and making the world a more connected and meaningful place.
Links and citations are provided so you can connect directly with profiled people and organizations.
If you want to:
- Hear about the coolest projects and people creating social connections in the world today
- Learn immediate actions you can take to be more connected to others and the world around you
- Enrich your life and the lives of others
- Become aware of and involved with remarkable connection-making people and organizations impacting the world
- Create golden ripples with your actions
. . . then join me on this journey. Read the blog posts, support profiled organizations when appropriate, join the conversation, spread awareness of great projects, and put into practice suggested social actions.
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So, Why a Seahorse?
I’m glad you asked!
Intentional connection with other humans is often fraught with effort, struggle, and challenges – much like the challenges seahorses face when tossed about by strong currents or storms.
Seahorses are notoriously weak swimmers, so they hook onto each other or a piece of sea grass by their tails and hold on for dear life during the rough seas of life.
They connect to survive.
We humans must also connect to survive.
We need to be connected to one another, to nature, to meaningful employment, to good health, to good sleep, meaningful values, and a hopeful and secure future.
Despite overwhelming societal issues in these areas that often lead to struggles with anxiety and depression, humans, much like the gallant seahorses, find ways to hold on, survive, and even thrive.
The goal of this blog is to help you find those blades of sea grass you can wrap yourself around to withstand the pummeling of life’s currents in ways that make you stronger, more resilient, and joyful, in ways that help you help others find their blades to hold onto as well. Ways that connect you to others, nature, meaningful work, and all the other things that provide joy and contentment.
Because when we as individuals increase our connectedness to the world, the world becomes more connected.
I believe that when these connections increase – be it little by little and person by person – they grow exponentially, and that can change the way the world functions.
While connecting seems like purely a people thing, the way the universe connects us with nature on a mathematical level in one of the most magical connections of all.
Yes, math. Stay with me, and allow me to show you with pictures instead of numbers.
You probably don’t even realize it, but usually when you are drawn to something as beautiful – be it a person, a flower, or the universe – chances are, it has proportions that follow a specific mathematical ratio referred to as the Golden Ratio.
You’ve probably seen representations of this ratio in famous art.
DaVinci knew the power of the golden ratio.
We can see the same ratio in seahorses.
Nature knows all about the Golden Ratio.
We are all connected as humans by our humanness. We are all inextricably connected to nature. We are all connected to the universe via this ratio. It’s all about being and being connected.
So, why a seahorse for a blog about connecting?
They embody the Golden Spiral of connection. They represent tenacity and hope in the face the tumultuous pressures of life. And, they are just one of the most fascinating, coolest creatures on the planet and make a pretty great logo.
Join me on a journey of making Golden Connections together.