I'm soooo envious! I may never make it over-seas in this life time - but oh how I would love too...glad your daughter can have such an awesome experience and that you can live it through her...
Gannets are enormous and sleek creamy-white seabirds, with black wingtips, yellow heads and necks, and startlingly outlined eyes. They nest on the rocky cliffs of the European and North American coasts of the North Atlantic and, once grown, spend their days sailing across the ocean. The acrobatics by which they make their living ~ steep climbs into the air and speedy plunges straight into the sea ~ are rivaled only by those of pelicans.
What better metaphor for a sweeping search of one's life choices and opportunities than a gannet extended above the waves, a regal and yet restless surveyor of the vast ocean surface? The gannet reminds us that life is an adventure in both beauty and profound unease, and that the sea itself is limitless in its textures and possibilities.
6 comments:
There's a St. Kevin?
Read the link!
still no such thing as a Saint Wayne
Great photo. Makes me wish I was back in the Emerald Isle instead of writing about ecclesiology.
I'm soooo envious! I may never make it over-seas in this life time - but oh how I would love too...glad your daughter can have such an awesome experience and that you can live it through her...
Wow! I love the "he fell asleep in the Lord..." and at age 120.
I love that!
Post a Comment