On Friday we went to Santa Cruz to walk along the beach. There was a wonderful path that wound right along the shoreline and as I looked out at the water I realized my ocean poem wasn’t adequate. That is, it is the poem of someone who loves having the ocean nearby, but hasn’t actually been next to it in a while. Real ocean is much bigger and stronger and greater… I don’t think I could write a poem to that. Paint, maybe. But the poem is good for the little ocean-notion in my heart. 🙂
Here’s the real ocean (still seen from the comfort of land, on a calm day!):
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Stunning, Lisa! Thanks for sharing a little of the Pacific with us. I bet your fingers were itching to paint! (Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay are where we always went when I was a child in California.)
You’re welcome, Sherry! I love HMB and would love to get to know Santa Cruz better. We always went to Carmel, or later to a place called Sunset Beach which is in Watsonville near all the broccoli and strawberry fields. 🙂
We actually saw someone painting, down on the rocks, and were amused because her entire canvas was covered in orange and yellow and peach colors. I have no idea what she was painting, but it definitely wasn’t a straight representation of the ocean. 😉
Thanks. I often forget I live so close to the ocean
🙂 I didn’t think I’d miss it so much, but I do! I’m not that far — Santa Cruz was just under an hour’s drive — but we’re in a valley now, so I can’t see nor hear it.
Thanks for the video! It made me homesick for the Atlantic… My family is from Barbados & the sea is my kinda nature. I could never camp ever again a day in my life and be fine. However, without the calm & peace that the ocean brings me, I’d be a wilty flower.
You’re very welcome! You know, I don’t know that I’ve ever properly been to the Atlantic. I went on a cruise once around the Caribbean, but I think that might just have been the Gulf of Mexico — kind of the Atlantic, I guess. I can only imagine how much more you’d love the sea if your family has island roots. 🙂
Neat !
Glad you think so! 😀
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