#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream
Sea Fig, Point Reyes, CA
From its thunderous ocean breakers crashing against rocky headlands and expansive sand beaches to its open grasslands, brushy hillsides, and forested ridges, Point Reyes offers visitors over 1500 species of plants and animals to discover. Home to several cultures over thousands of years, the Seashore preserves a tapestry of stories and interactions of people. Point Reyes awaits your exploration.
A remarkable day, beginning to end. Sweet sleep. No remembered dreams. Coffee and packing the car with my friend, a drive, over the Golden Gate Bridge, no traffic. Perfect sun, a blue sky and the air cool, we’ve dressed in layers. We drive about an hour or less to Point Reyes National Seashore where we spend a glorious day, walking beaches and exploring the village of Point Reyes Station, coffee, later lunch outdoors, and some time planning my friend’s memoir in the late afternoon sun at a picnic table. The miles and miles of beach at the glorious Pacific and its pounding. It’s dark by the time we approach the Golden Gate Bridge, the lights of the city, the crossing and quick arrival to her home. I find that dear Robert Bly has written, in 1974, a little collection of Point Reyes Poems, and I find this one that makes me weep with gladness:
Thinking of a child soon to be born, I hunch down among friendly sand grains.... The sand grains love us, for they love whatever lives without force, a young girl who looks out over her life, alone, with no map, no horse, a white dress on. The sand grains love whatever is not rushing blindly forward––~ Excert from Robert Bly, Welcoming a Child in the Limantour Dunes
