Sea

Interface

The boundary of two worlds. Land and Sea. There is a force here. I can feel it when I am still.

Incrementally, and without effort, water sculpts the edges of the land. Then men come to correct what water has done. 

Water is relentless–generations of men struggle to maintain what would otherwise maintain itself, in its own way, without struggle. Water is. I wonder: where is the line between maintenance and interference?

Midst the noise of the surf I sense a quiet pull–a primordial dream I don’t remember; but somehow I remember a feeling–very unlike the gratuitous noise and flashing lights of my digital world, that would lure me away. 

The cadence of my thinking has changed. Here, there is an uncommon sense of wholeness. Here, the same thing has been happening, the same way, for eons of analogue time, all by itself. 

There is no ‘undo’ button here. There is nothing to be undone. Nor will there be. For a brief moment, I feel a part of the flow of the eons.  

At the Interface: on my side, things I know. Out there, just off shore, things I don’t. 

Here–close to a great integrity, most of it unknown–I feel the depths, out there, beyond the shore, beyond the horizon. I can see why there’s a romance with the sea, and why so many sailors wrote about it. 

I write to organize my thoughts, to cut a balance between them, to demarcate them–to ground them–lest they blow away on the wind and return as someone else’s.

I have learned to choose my tools of thought with care. May be that’s been my life–a search for the right tools, in spite of the default ones given to me, shared by most, traditionally.

My wife and I were here to witness Alberto as he blew in–a spectacular event. Tonight, he is gone. She and I walk on a beach now calm after a tropical storm, a paradise under the light of a full moon, rising in the East …

-May 2018

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