That Sweet Ocean Air

Just some photos - check the link on sidebar (and teeny bit of borrowed poetry) from a trip to the beach. Enjoy.

My Letter from the World
with apologies to Emily Dickinson
(‘This is My Letter to the World’)

This is my letter from the world
That once it wrote to me.
‘Dear friend,' it spelled in purple buds
Upon a lilac tree.

‘Come look around’ the letter said
'On mountains topped by snow'.
‘For if you search a hundred years
There’d still be more to know'.

‘Please play with me’ it wrote in waves
Beneath a bright blue sky.
Then signed itself, ‘sincerely, World’

Upon a butterfly.

My soul is full of longing
For the secret of the sea,
And the heart of the great ocean
Sends a thrilling pulse through me.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Live in the sunshine,
swim the sea,

drink the wild air.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson