The Ocean

The ocean is gargantuan.

Driving along the coast with my mom today, we kept stopping at the look outs. Every single time I would wonder how far it was to the shiny horizon, what time of day it was so far away, and how much water and depth there were between here and there, and I would say, "The ocean is so big." And my mother would say, "We've been to Hawaii a million times and you don't know this by now?!" Well no, sometimes you know things, and then you learn to know things, and everything changes.


We watched the sun set from our hotel room, all the way across the sea. It makes me wonder if thousands of miles from me to the sunset on the water, and another thousand beyond, if someone is watching the sunrise.

3/20/11

I don't know who to give credit for for the photo: it's from Newport, OR where I am though, and I found it on travelpod.com....