#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream
I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
~ Victor Frankl
A solitary walk, with Charlie, my first of this time here. I walk early, as usual, up the hill, down the winding long trail through the scrub to the rocky beach and I walk up in the direction of Menemsha Beach for awhile just for a change. Low tide, and lots of seaweed. I find the perfect toy for Charlie, and he is again as he was when a puppy and youthful dog, chasing and retrieving his wonderful toy in the mild surf, then trying to bury the orange buoy in the sand. He is very happy and so am I. Once home, I work the morning, and Frank too. I wrote a blog for the Transformative Language Arts Network where I am teaching a 6-week webinar on How Pictures Heal in September. I get caught up on responding to a few e-mails. And then Frank and I pack a lunch and go with our daughter to Lucy Vincent Beach where the clouds are clearing for the afternoon and I am reading one of my favorite novelists, Colum McCann, and his newest novel, Apeirogon. I believe I’ve read every novel he’s written, and my favorite, of course was Let the Great World Spin, (which won the National Book Award) and this novel focuses on a friendship between two grieving fathers in Israel and Palestine. The water is sweet and salty and cool and wavy and fresh. The moon is bright in the wide open sky as evening descends and will be full in a few days before we go.
“Rami, the poet, the Sufi, said something that I will never forget: Beyond right and wrong there is a field, I'll meet you there.” We were right and we were wrong and we met in a field. We realized that we wanted to kill each other to achieve the same thing, peace and security. Imagine that, what an irony, it's crazy.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon
Charlie insisted on carrying his toy all the way home. Well, I had to carry it a good amount of the way for him, as he would not let me leave it behind on the beach, and this toy is quite a mouthful to carry all that way.
