Whirl and Swirl

Time's Wicked Current

Rum-tee-tum-tee-tum-tum.
Sipping rum, watching "Into the Blue" with the director's commentary going, and remembering a long-anticipated Hawaiian dive-trip with my late best friend back in 2008.

Time has a wicked current, you know?


(If you want to know more about the clay mask, check here.)

"Whirl is King" -- Aristophanes

Arnold: "With Noiseless Current Strong, Obscure and Deep"

Below the surface-stream, shallow and light,
Of what we say we feel -- below the stream,
As light, of what we think we feel -- there flows
With noiseless current strong, obscure and deep,
The central stream of what we feel indeed.

--Matthew Arnold

(1869)

Catching the Tide

Here's the booklist for next semester's English 1A:

Daniel Duane's Caught Inside;
Curtis Ebbesmeyer & Eric Scigliano's Flotsametrics and the Floating World;
Laurence Gonzales' Deep Survival;
William Langewiesche's The Outlaw Sea;
Jack London's The Sea-Wolf;
and John McPhee's The Control of Nature.

Of course, there will be additional readings to set the tone and direct the pace of things.  Handouts!

(Also: selected videos on surfing, sharks, marine mammals, ships and shipping, the Mississippi River Delta, storms, volcanoes, disasters, and so forth.)

Lucky, Swimming