Lost Ocean
How can you see all there is to see if you never leave the comfort of your own backyard?
I am so grateful to have been able to travel. My view of the world changed having used my passport. I began to appreciate the ways & customs of those who live in other countries… my mind was stretched… and when that happens, it can never go back to the way it was.
So true.
Leaving one ocean behind for another.
While the mostly calm* Atlantic differs from the choppy** Pacific, I’m fairly sure that the shores of both are home to large flocks of noisey, poop-dropping seagull scavengers.
* hurricanes
** surfing heaven
Terrific metaphor, Rye/Andre; where oceans seemingly depict communities, and shores, friends.
Don’t forget the Thames… although it’s a river and not an ocean… it’s still water… (well not “still” waters… it moves along perty good)… Anyhoo… Funny… You don’t know this yet, but you’ll see in an upcoming Sunday… that Randie lives on Shoreline Street.
Shoreline Street? Really? Wow.
Oceanfront real estate prices, buying and renting alike, tend to go into the stratosphere even with shacks sitting atop such properties.
But, I though that Randie is poor…so confused…
The irony is that it is not right on the shoreline as it might suggest. You know in Monterey how you have Foam Street, then Wave Street… I wanted something that tied in with that. But no, Randie doesn’t live right on the ocean, nor does she have a view.
Ah, truth in advertising, or lack thereof…
Be it that she’s in lower income strata; maybe a good name for her building might be…”Ocean-bottom.”
chuckle
Seeing that streets can continue far beyond their origin, we shouldn’t be surprised that a street that passes by the water becomes “Land-locked” further down the road.
Many residential developments have tree names in them even though there isn’t a single tree left standing after the houses are built.
You think that’s bad, there is an apartment complex in my neighborhood that is named lake view. There’s no lake because it got drained and paved over to build the complex, not that it was much of a lake to begin with from what I hear but still.
You think that’s bad?
A guy that I work with and his wife bought a house on a pond that used to be part of a farm. The state’s Department of Natural Resources calls it a natural body of water, but there’s nothing natural about it. It was dug out and expanded by the family that owned the farm to collect farm waste. The developer that bought the land had to dump chemicals into it to neutralize the ph and get rid of the algae.
sigh…