so pure is the blue
it’s hard to tell
where the sky ends
and the sea begins.
—
‘meet me where the sky touches the sea. wait for me where the world begins.’
-jennifer donnelly
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holland state park beach, may 2023
May23
Tag Archives: sea
Feb25
elvis has left the boat.
Heinz wants to find the man who survived nearly a month at sea with nothing but ketchup and seasonings to help him buy a new boat
Elvis Francois was working on his boat in St. Maarten in December when he accidentally started drifting out to sea. The weather had suddenly changed, and he said in a video released by the Colombian Navy, who rescued him, that he had lost his ability to navigate.
“I tried to [go] back to port, but I lost track because it took me a while to mount the sail and fix the sail,” he said. “…I call my friends, my coworkers. They tried to contact me, but they lost service. There was nothing else I could do than sit down and wait.”
He wrote out the word “help” on the back of his boat, and he was eventually rescued – after 24 days with nothing but “a bottle of ketchup…garlic powder and Maggi [soup].”
The navy said that officers took Francois to the Port of Cartagena to receive medical care and that he was “found to be in good health.” While there, they also started the necessary actions to help him return home.
“We’re setting this message adrift into the sea of the internet, because if anyone can help us find him, it’s you,” the company said. “If you or anyone you know can help us get in contact with Elvis Francois, please drop us a DM.”
In a statement to CBS News on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Heinz said that they want to “gift” Elvis a “new state-of-the-art boat.” That boat, they said, will be “equipped with full navigational technology to avoid another disaster in the future.” It’s currently an international effort, with Heinz markets “around the world” getting involved. “We’re hoping to spread the word far and wide so Heinz can finally gift the new boat to Elvis,” the company said.
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“for whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.”
-e.e. cummings
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source credit: liz cohen, cbs news
Feb3
driftwood.
a piece of driftwood
mixed in
among the vases and mirrors and tchotchkes and other home decor items
and while i’m a fan of natural found materials
i was not really motivated to spend $39.99 on this
but i do now have an idea for my summer job –
beachcomber.
—
“i imagined your stick, washing in the waves for hundreds of years,
turning to driftwood
smooth and hard like stone.
i imagined a little girl finding it on a beach so many years later.
saving it on her shelf,
where she put the things that made her feel like the world was magical.”
– ava dellaira
Oct20
minnehaha.
seeing the bones of this ship on the shores of lake michigan
washed up on the camp arcadia beach
and wondering how they came to be here.
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The Minnehaha, built in 1880 by Linn & Craig in Gibralter, Michigan, was a 4-masted, 200 foot, wooden schooner used to haul cargo in Great Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan. On October 13th of 1893, the steam barge Henry J. Johnson was towing the Minnehaha from Chicago bound for Point Edward at the south end of Lake Huron with 58,000 bushels of corn when facing 90 mile per hour gale force winds, the ship was lost to the sea.
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“the sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning:
we are all in the same boat.
-jacques yves cousteau
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http://www.arcadiami.com/index.php/hidden-exhibits/hidden-shipwrecks/hidden-minnehaha
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credits: maritime history of the great lakes, bowling green state university, camp arcadia
Oct19
spectacle.
there is one spectacle grander than the sea,
that is the sky;
there is one spectacle grander than the sky,
that is the interior of the soul.
-victor hugo
—
Arcadia Dunes, C.S. Mott Nature Preserve, on the shores of Lake Michigan, hiking Old Baldy Trail – October 2020
Aug27
on the surface.
on the edge of the atlantic ocean
such an easy place to ponder and wander
—
“the mind has no existence by itself;
it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.”
– d.h. lawrence
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wells beach, atlantic ocean, wells, maine – august 2019
Aug24
great bay.
morning has broken on the great bay.
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“for whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.”
―
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great bay, portsmouth, new hampshire
august 2019
Sep4
the crossing.
word has it the littles are headed to england.
hopefully they’re back in the states
in time for the first day of school today.
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“you can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
-rabindranath tagore
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glen lake, empire, michigan – summer 2018
Jul26
the song of the sea.
the view of the sea
from the kitchen of
our 260 year old farmhouse
in a remotely quiet
and beautiful area
way out
on old head
through fields
to where the lusitania and its crew lie at rest
and
down winding roads
to where the sailors catch the wind
in the city of kinsale.
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“we are tied to the ocean.
and when we go back to the sea,
whether it is to sail or to watch –
we are going back from whence we came.”
-john f. kennedy
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old head, kinsale, county cork, ireland
Jul19
outside my window, tonight in ireland.
“the words ran away from me.”
-edna o’brien
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portstewart, county londonderry, ireland
I didn't have my glasses on.... 