Meditations on the Sea
Sunset over Môle Beach Our adventure comes to an end this week, as we return to Burgundy and our inland French life. With the end of our stay in St. Malo comes the end of this blog. This will be my last posting. I leave you with some photos of the Bay of St. Malo and some words from others who have mused about the oceans and seas. Off the coast at the Pointe du Décolle It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. ― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us Spring grasses and rocky cove I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking. —John Mansfield, Sea Fever Looking out towards th...
