If you look carefully at the photo, you’ll see the word “Unsplash” spread across.  It’s a marvelous website that has paid a global copyright license for thousands of images, so that we members can rest assured we’re not breaking the law.  Yay!

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I love the picture.  It speaks so profoundly, beyond countless paragraphs of “meaning”.  After all, my insights probably are different than yours.  So I won’t add to the world’s verbal outflow.  I’ll just tell you a story …

About forty-five years ago, I was climbing a wooded hill on Canada’s Vancouver Island, close to the Pacific shore.  The trees opened to a space of grass.  The peak felt close.

And then the sound, muffled but real …

What is that?

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Waves breaking on a beach!

Close … closer … almost there …

There!

The Pacific Ocean suddenly spread before my eyes, rows of white disappearing on the sand, one by one.  And the sky was smiling.

Me too