A Day at the Beach

Photo courtesy of JP.

Arch Rock: A Series

I just kept watching the flow of water. Other times, I've paddled through the arch, but the tide was too high and there was too much energy from the southwest swell to chance that this time. I'm a cautious paddler.

Arch Rock Locals: Paddle and Zoom

The same group from a different angle.

Where Are You Headed?

Where Are You Headed?

Looking For Earthsea

There's the portal up ahead.  I just have to get there.

(Where's Le Guin's Sparrowhawk when you need him?)

"The story of the book is essentially a voyage, a pattern in the form of a long spiral.  I began to see the places where the young wizard would go.  Eventually I drew a map.  Now that I knew where everything was, now was the time for cartography.  Of course a great deal of it only appeared above water, as it were, in drawing the map."

--Ursula Le Guin, writing about the evolving, unfolding, organic genesis and composition of her masterpiece The Wizard of Earthsea in her essay "Dreams Must Explain Themselves," a worthy read in its own right.

Thank you, Ursula Le Guin, for sparking so many spiral journeys of the imagination.