I love to walk. The unexpected is around every corner. A pink rubbery heart placed on the trestle bridge scripted with the word “love” made me smile. As did the blindingly yellow spikes of an ice plant—one leaf was even striped!
Rounding a bluff, I looked down to see shimmering water scallop its way up the beach—the flattened waves edged in light.
I made my way down to the sand and was met by strange sights: a shapely cartilaginous blob, ocean-smoothed glass and a flat ribbon of seaweed seemingly growing out of a rock.
A feather floated like an airborne tree in a nearby tide pool. Far above, a real tree captured my attention with its tangled trunk—an inch worm measuring itself.
I followed the squawks of several ravens to a deceased stingray. Its emerging spines resembled stacks of shark teeth or celestial stars set into a fleshy pink sky. Nearly every stage of life and death was within eye’s reach.
I climbed back up the bluff and saw a shadow of my current self against time’s erosion. I am only here for a brief time. I want to pack as much wonder into myself as my body will allow. And when that’s full, I will sardine my spirit until it’s time to swim away.
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