I saw sailboats on a windless day recently at Crescent Beach. It was relaxing to watch them get nowhere bobbing gently in the water ... relaxing in contrast to events in the news. In addition to other horrors, there were earthquakes in California and relatively minor shakes along the BC coast. Luckily no lives were reported lost. Devastation occurs regularly in our world as do joyful moments, although life usually straddles the middle like the stairway (below) with a forest on either side and shore at the bottom.
In Ocean Park, the
1001 Steps had no walkers so it was up to me to make those wooden boards creak and to hear the birds sing as they darted from leaf to leaf.
Along
Sandy Trail, there was a red door saying
welcome that led nowhere except to where my imagination could take me as it did
HERE.
A crow hoping for scraps found none ... on either side of the fence (below).
It occurred to me that even if there’s nothing to find and the going is slow it’s surreal just to lie on the grass and watch clouds drift over a remarkable world away from the news ... especially since the chance of being born to witness all this is as rare as 1 in 400 trillion or 1 in 400 quadrillion. Each of us exists improbably if not impossibly.
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