So beautiful, thank you 🙏. Especially loved these:
“kelpie, a dangerous lake horse that drags the unwary down into its dark depths.
‘Let’s swim,’ I say. The Kelpie won’t mind us. Three of us swim naked out into the cold and sweet water, it feels so clean and strange after the salt, smooth against the skin. I feel I could swim forever. Maybe that’s the Kelpie’s warning. That going too far into the dreaming of places could pull us into a state which feels so much more kin to our beings than dry land. There’s a longing there, but as all fairy tales instruct us, do not be lured, do not tarry, we cannot live there as humans. Our place is elsewhere. We have work to do.”
“we need all these charts and equipment to navigate the sea. But a seal just dives into the water and knows exactly where he is with his body. Maybe that is what these islands, this voyage, have taught us. If we just dared to immerse ourselves in the great memory of the sea, we too would remember where we are, how it is to live on this blue planet as a real human being.”
So beautiful, thank you 🙏. Especially loved these:
“kelpie, a dangerous lake horse that drags the unwary down into its dark depths.
‘Let’s swim,’ I say. The Kelpie won’t mind us. Three of us swim naked out into the cold and sweet water, it feels so clean and strange after the salt, smooth against the skin. I feel I could swim forever. Maybe that’s the Kelpie’s warning. That going too far into the dreaming of places could pull us into a state which feels so much more kin to our beings than dry land. There’s a longing there, but as all fairy tales instruct us, do not be lured, do not tarry, we cannot live there as humans. Our place is elsewhere. We have work to do.”
“we need all these charts and equipment to navigate the sea. But a seal just dives into the water and knows exactly where he is with his body. Maybe that is what these islands, this voyage, have taught us. If we just dared to immerse ourselves in the great memory of the sea, we too would remember where we are, how it is to live on this blue planet as a real human being.”