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11/02/2008
MuddyWater.NET
"May we
exist in muddy water with purity like a lotus, thus we bow to Buddha."
Photographs and more from Ron DiMichele and occasional guests
San Gregorio Beach, San Gregorio, CA (October, 2008)
ON THE SEA
By John Keats
It keeps eternal whisperings around
Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell
Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell
Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.
Often 'tis in such gentle temper found,
That scarcely will the very smallest shell
Be moved for days from where it sometime fell.
When last the winds of Heaven were unbound.
Oh, ye! who have your eyeballs vexed and tired,
Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;
Oh ye! whose ears are dinned with uproar rude,
Or fed too much with cloying melody---
Sit ye near some old Cavern's Mouth and brood,
Until ye start, as if the sea nymphs quired!
(special thanks to TC)
Pensive surfer, Linda Mar Beach, Pacifica, CA (October, 2008)
What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
- Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Sea cave, Pelican Point Beach, Half Moon Bay, CA (Oct. 08)
Who said the sea's concave,
Mountain's convex?
Why, I swallow them whole–
The boneless sky!
- Heishin, 1287-1369
Año Nuevo State Preserve, Pescadero, CA (October,
2008)
Hillside, Linda Mar Bay, Pacifica, CA (October, 2008)
Sea-soaked rocks, Pigeon Point Beach, Pescadero, CA (October 2008)
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne, no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
- William Penn
