Tag: ocean

  • The Ocean Is Receding

    I stood at the shore, my feet neatly intersecting the high tide line, and watched as the water silently and steadily withdrew from me. Once it passed the breakwater point, it appeared to stop wistfully retreating and instead rushed fervently to a point far beyond where my eyes could see. As if it seemed reluctant…

  • Dream Journal: 2014-08-17.01

    I amended my Not Short backstory with Mary to adjust one of her descriptors. The word “ocean” is overloaded with meanings for me. There is the Ocean and there is the ocean. Both are bodies of water, but the former is a Power that uses the ocean as a metaphor for itself and as expression,…

  • Dream: Book of Ur

    I wasn’t fully sleep. But I wasn’t fully awake, either. Sitting at the bus stop, enjoying some peace and quiet before my daughter arrived from school. She had just texted me, her bus was late arriving to the school. No worries, I texted back, I would take a nap and wait for her. The winds…