Breathe in the sea and keep its rhythm in your heart.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Rode a truck's tailgate most of the morning and got out to the shore by noon, which is farther than I usually go in a week. For years I thought the ocean was monotonous, one wave and then the same wave, and I preferred a field where something different happens in every furrow. Stood on a piling until the light went orange and found I had stopped counting the waves and started waiting for them, which is not the same thing at all. Breathe in the sea and keep its rhythm in your heart, I wrote on the back of a ferry schedule, because the air out there is salted and heavy and a small bird notices every ounce of it. A gull went by and did not look at me. Flying home tomorrow and I expect the field will seem quiet, though I am not sure quiet is the word I want.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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- Seek your counsel in the night sky.
- A garden needs two forms of sunshine: the kind that comes from the sun and the kind that comes from mouths with upturned corners.
- You don't have to be a god to work miracles in a garden.
- What one can imagine, two can create.
- Every sunrise and sunset shows how breathtaking is the world’s beauty and how fleeting.