so i've been in Gaviota since sunday. WoW! i can hardly believe the paradise i've been invited to savor (thanks Amy H :). i've never been so drawn by the ocean so intensely before. and she is scary, wonderous, angry, portendful, delicious. she seduces me into her arms every time...heart beating fast, waves riding continuous, breaking little cliffs over me, noone around to "save" me should she decide she wants me for herself. but i go anyway. straight to the heart of what scares me, cause i have to. i sure would like to learn to surf (full of life metaphors). i am so in awe of the real surfers. now THAT is a religion i could get behind.
so yesterday i scampered down a slippery, scratchy-bush trail behind the train tracks, down to the near-empty beach to find a whole lobster, well, from the outside (someone enjoyed an innards snack) dead, and i was aMAZed to get to inspect the intricacy, the alien shapes, the dinosauric, wild form that some people just drop into a pot and let scream. this creature i only yesterday saw up close for the first time is SOOO extraordinary i could hardly believe something like that lives right here. all those flipper things and grabber things, and so many different materials and designs. have you ever looked underneath? every section has this almost see-through skin, it's not hard shell like the top. and the eyes, whoa, those buggy little things are totally see through when dead. and what on earth is going on on the thoracic part of the back? all those hard spiny things. and the TEETH!! wHAT???! i mean, those things seem like they could do some serious chomping! anyway, i highly recommend checking one out- and perhaps in pictures on line or something safe for them!
today i went on a lovely hike with Amy...rattlesnake something or other, though i didn't have the pleasure of seeing any of its namesake creatures. then to arroyo burro (henry's) for a much more mellow tread in the water. what a gentle beach. many memories rushed in of being here with Cassidy and Mingus...leash free!!!! in the late afternoon sun i finished Jane Goodall's book "Reason for Hope". hmmm...umm...we gotta get going folks. there IS hope if we are all willing to let the right thing start making a louder noise. i am soo grateful to all of you who are standing up and saying we MUST create a future for our KidS. ummm, we've really dumped a bit of shit on them, and we wonder why "they" seem so apathetic. geesus. what sort of future have we created for them. and here i sit in this beauty, the next step unfolding. all part of the journey.
ok, so i listen and then write. and think. and wonder. it's nice.
the train tracks are calling...still...big blue skies...big blue waters...big blue life... allowing the colours to change.
still loving you dearly,
kiKi
1 comment:
if it makes you feel better, sounds like the lobster you found was a molt, not dinner. as lobsters grow they get too big for their shell and so they start growing a new one underneath that's soft until the old one is shed and then the new one can become hard and protective once again. :)
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