Deeply ingrained in our society, I think, is a belief that the sea as something to be challenged, something that is threatening, something that is a physical presence, an object only. Like the rocks that make the mountains, water makes the sea; it is essentially inanimate to us. For me the ocean is alive and has no end, all life exists in the sea and is connected. We carry the ocean in our blood.
Nearly everything I have read about the sea has been, no matter how lyrical, about the experience of the sea as a physical challenge to the individual, or tries to explain the ocean as a system. Trying to communicate the sea as a place of being is difficult when we cannot be in the ocean, yet we cause so much unknowable damage and hurt.
How can someone write about this place that doesn’t exist for most people but that is the essence of life?
How to communicate connectedness with something that is separate: there is ‘the sea’ and then there is ‘life in the sea’.
Bringing them together, uniting as one place that exists everywhere and giving that unison is the challenge. To me a sense of place is the particular place or environment that allows you to feel and connect with the wholeness of life, to feel and be part of the pulse of the world-animal.
όλο το άρθρο εδώ.
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