What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. (Joseph Campbell)
Tomorrow will be exactly one month since I returned from an amazing time in Barbados where I attended a beautiful wedding. Not too many settings can compare with the sea for words of love and vows of love. ” Each human life is the journey from childhood to a realized adult life. Each day is a journey out of darkness into light. Each friendship and love is the intimate journey where the soul is born and grows. The journey is the drama of the heart’s voyage into the tide of possibilities which opens before it.” (John O’Donohue)
May this couple ride on the waves of great possibilities. To attend a wedding is to witness and support the beginning of this momentous journey into adulthood and to be at the seaside is to be confronted with the tides – both high and low.
The sea makes me feel comfortable and happy inside. I love the color of the water, the feel of it, and the sound of the waves as they ebb and flow. It had been sometime since I had vacationed like this. It was breathtakingly beautiful. The only way I could bring some of it away with me was to take many pictures.
Some say: “Life is a beach.” However, my experience has taught me just the opposite. Although this time was one of great enjoyment and joy, it couldn’t last forever. Change is the order of each day. We all made the journey back to the destinations we had left in order to continue those voyages we are on. We have a lot in common with the sea. “Unlike the land, which is fixed in one place, the sea manifests freedom: she is the primal dance, a dance that has always moved to its own music. The wild divinity of the ocean infuses the shore with ancient sound. Who can tell what secrets she searches from the shoreline? What news she whispers to the shore in the gossip of urgent wavelets? This is a primal conversation. The place where absolute change rushes against still permanence, where the urgency of Becoming confronts the stillness of Being, where restless desire meets the silence and serenity of stone. Beyond human seeing and knowing, the meeting of ocean and shoreline must be one of the places where the earth almost breaks through to word.” (John O’Donohue)
I always revert to the words of one of my favorite authors when I can’t find the words to express what I really want to say. I hope you enjoy all the collages as much as I do.
