Magic at the Edge of Land and Sea

(Watercolor pencil journal sketch)

There's magic at the edge where the sea meets land.  Something mesmerizing happens to your soul.  You are engulfed by the vast immensity of ocean.  Your perspective gets tweaked.  You feel small in the universe.  Something greater than your life exists.  You are made well aware of that fact.  And it's a good feeling.  You have a sense of things being restored to their proper place in what needs to dominate your thinking.

I must go down the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

---John Masefield

from "Sea Fever"

O LORD, what a variety of things You have made!

in wisdom you have made them all.

The earth is full of Your creatures.

Here is the ocean, vast and wide,

teeming with life of every kind, 

both large and small.

---Psalm 104:24,25

Live bravely and beautifully!