Some of our friends spend some time on Christmas Eve lighting up their neighborhoods and, in our absence last week, they stopped by our place to ensure that we remained bonded to one another.
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.
7 comments:
you have wonderful friends.
Roberta is right...you DO have wonderful friends. Luminaria are my favorite of all holiday lights. If I did Christmas, that's what I'd have.
What a loving, wonderful thing to do.
What a lovely gesture; it's no surprise that you have such wonderful friends.
That is just the best!
beautiful--- I knew the world was filled with good people and I am so glad when anyone takes the time to point it out.
~sigh~
That is just wonderful. What fine friends you have!
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