#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream
“As once the winged energy of delight
carried you over childhood’s dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.
Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.
To work with Things in the indescribable
relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.
Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions… For the god
wants to know himself in you.”
To the lagoon, early, last chance to walk with my youngest while she’s here. And there were only a very few birds around in the windy morning of sudden chill and bright sunshine. We shortened the walk to have a family breakfast and the day was full of activity. In the late afternoon it warmed and the wind died down and we rented jet skis. Not my favorite thing to do, but I went along and rode behind Frank and it was sunny but cool and in Longboat Pass, suddenly, beside us, very close, a fin gliding up and gone, and then another, another, the dolphins, a pod, so many, to the left and right and behind and ahead, and beside us and among us and underneath us, all we could do was watch them and slowly follow them and they kept coming, probably near fifty, and they did their back flips and tail flips and they were magnificent, and I felt glee and gratitude and awe and wonder and even a baby dolphin, a baby! swimming along. It was so thrilling, a spectacle shared by all of us in the terrific late afternoon: “For the god/wants to know [her]self in you.”