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S Lin's avatar

You can stand up again and still be falling. ❤️💔

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Rob Porter's avatar

More beautiful writing. I still have no idea what ‘do you know your ocean’ means. But ‘what do you love yet also fear’ I probably understand. I love, love but fear how vulnerable it makes us. Yet we embark down the path of love knowing that either through betrayal or loss we will ultimately grieve… and still we keep on doing it.

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Tina Hedin's avatar

I love this essay. I must admit when I saw the title, I took it literally. I thought, well, of course, my ocean is the Atlantic, off the coast of Florida, that's the one I know. But that's not what it means. I had to read this twice and ponder oceans and grief and fear and love.

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Alexandra McKay's avatar

I love this. I will return to it - it deserves to be read over and over.

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

I see I’m not the only one who finds water a bit of a paradox. I wrote an essay exploring this idea a few weeks ago. I’ll share a link, as I think you might vibe with it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/practicespace/p/swimming-lessons?r=1tks3b&utm_medium=ios

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John Saltalamacchia's avatar

The ocean has gravity and mass

vast

is so heavy and foreboding and dangerous

can contain an aircraft carrier

and the Titanic

And it’s a liquid

you can fall right through

sink

or float

It contains so many things

and nothing seemingly

as you open your eyes and swim

A whole world

so much invisible

and unknowable

and unknown

as we just skim the surface

and occasionally dive down

to see what’s really there underneath

the treacherous surface

where storms rage

and lightning strikes (many times more than once)

- From under the heaviness of ocean soaked blankets of wool made from grieving sheep.

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Maggie May Ethridge's avatar

I’ve been running at night, my favorite time to run anyway.

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Helen Vitler's avatar

Whoops I can’t find the edit feature on what I wrote .

In my deep thought I forgot to say thank you for such a provoking message . x

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Helen Vitler's avatar

Wow, so much food for thought here and to be digested .

Def have to reread and muse…💞😘

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