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An Edgy Image
23 May 2018
We were standing on the concete edge, restrained from the bay below us only by a rotting wooden railing. A curiously rusted bolt poked out as us like a finger warning us to move back.
Yes, but what was that bolt supposed to be doing -- and why wasn't it doing it any more?
We stepped back.
Living by the sea is romantic. Glorious sunsets (we've share more than a few here), spectacular views, the roar of the waves impervious to time, the tides that suggest there is more to this universe than the world, the sand that burns and yet yields.
We are celebrating two birthdays today.
But it makes no apologies for the ravishes of time.
Anyone who has ever visited Alcatraz has been stunned by the delicate lace work that was once an iron railing. The sea and salt air work their magic on our strongest materials.
Ironically, it is the concrete made of sand, cement and water that endures, even hardens, with exposure to the elements. As close as we mortals come to making stone.
We are celebrating two birthdays today. One at 30 years and the other at 91. Timeless souls both of them. Like concrete, erosion never touches them.
They do not resemble stone, though, so much as glorious sunsets, spectacular views, the roar of waves impervious to time, the tides that suggest there is more to this universe than the world, the sand that burns and yet yields.