The taker of this photo, the Rev. Linda Flatley, calls her shot: Sand, Sea, Snow and Sun. The picture beats a pathway around a sense of mindfulness. There may be no easy words that can hold the four sibilant elements of the picture’s title in the palm of one hand. And yet here they are in a single frame?
There is also a log that has been partially washed ashore. I had a friend who use to meditate on an old seed log in a similar quandary. He wondered mindfully if the log was to be washed ashore or was to be washed out to sea as it wallowed back and forth in the water. And yet here is this log also locked between a freezing cold season and perhaps a warmer season.
The rows of waves (five, six, a million?) stretching out to sea are a tempting lack of focus. I try to recall the formula of wave periodicity, or the experience of watching a slow pond ripple that caught a line of moonlight.
Thanks to Pastor Linda Flatley for this photograph. I hope someone leaves a comment on this blog for this image.
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Thank you for the post, and for your meditation that accompanies it. Had she not titled it, I would have turned the snow into white sand. An anomaly on the coast, but it completes the calling out of such a range of our senses – warm, cold, wet, dry, surf sounds and snow silence. Hope you are well, Bill.
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Hi Linda! A’Delle and I enjoy your writing. We are interested in talking with you two guys. Maybe after church? Bill and A’Delle
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