We All Come From the Sea

St. Augustine, Florida

"We all come from the sea. But we are not all of the sea. Those of us who are, we children of the tides, must return to it again and again, until the day we don't come back, leaving behind only that which was touched along the way."

Caladesi Island, Florida with dad

I return to the sea again and again and again because she is beauty, she is clarity, she is humbling, she is my center.... she is home.... Jen (aka A Girl Named Fred)

St. Augustine, Florida

Dante

The sea I sail has never yet been passed;

Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo,

And Muses nine point out to me the Bears.

Ye other few who have the neck uplifted

Betimes to th' bread of Angels upon which

One liveth here and grows not sated by it,

Well may you launch upon the deep salt-sea

Your vessel, keeping still my wake before you

Upon the water that grows smooth again.

~ Dante