The Last Breath

On a recent trip to the West Coast, it was almost as if the sea were sighing. In every reach of the broken waves and the lacey foam rushing up the sand, I sensed a heaviness. For me, that rhythm of weight epitomized what I perceived as Nature’s sighs, as if the earth, the ocean, the sky, were exhaling some burden of impending change. Sometimes the natural world, in all its creative wonder, expresses a … Read more