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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.”

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Thank You Charlotte, it is now an impossible dream to coax the sea - or at least just become a passenger to some oceanic travel - a witness as to say... this reading spawned the imagination in a direction that may best serve my bodies limits - and perhaps encourage a strengthening towards what lived experience is allowed by me. I wish to swim as Kelpie, as Seal bound warmth in the tides... a desert rat that cannot handle the cold...

As I wish upon a bodies scope - for another life... I feel, you are living on behalf of us - lost to the heart's desire...

Thank you - sincerely - for living. and living the call...

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