breaker, bending, billow, breaker, coil, comber, crest, crush, curl, curlicue, current, drift, flood, foam, ground swell, gush, heave, influx, loop, movement, outbreak, rash, ridge, ripple, rippling, rocking, roll, roller, rush, scroll, surge, sweep, swell, tide, undulation, uprising, upsurge, whitecap. Wave
The refracted property of water ensures that when we look in deep we see shallow. When we gaze down searching for some shadowy profundity below the surface what usually comes back to us is merely us. Jonathan Raban, A Passage to Juneau
Like as the wave to the pebbled shore, So do our moments hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which has gone before. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 60
Your parents die, and you and your siblings grow older, and your kids grow up and they don’t need you any more. And what do you hold onto? Is it our religion? Spirituality? Is it money? Is it art? Alec Baldwin, Globe and Mail Newspaper Interview, Saturday January 3, 2004
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, and his fame doubtfull. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
In short all that is of the body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapours; life a warfare, a brief sojourning in an alien land; and after repute, oblivion. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Loss is nothing but change, and change is nature’s delight. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. The Indian leader Crowfoot’s dying words, overlooking the Bow River in Southern Alberta, April 25, 1890
They walk their dogs on the beach. They scoop their dog’s shit into little plastic bags. Then they toss it just off the beach in te brush where they can’t see it. As we all do. We make our waste – radioactive and otherwise. We put it into little containers and toss it where we can’t see it. We hope it is gone because we can’t see it. But it hasn’t gone away. All the farwaway places of our little blue planet, filled with little bags of shit.
Panties in different colors arranged across bare branches.
In the last 500 years, human activity has forced 816 species to extinction (or extinction in the wild). 25 percent of all amphibians, and 34 percent of fishes are threatened with extinction. It is estimated that every day one species goes extinct. In the last 200 years, 500 recorded species in the U.S. have become extinct, more than half of these extinctions occurred since 1980. Experts agree that the number-one cause of extinction is habitat destruction.
