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Martha at the Beach House

- Mon 30 Oct 2006 -

Sun breaks silently over an ocean alive
While a single, lone osprey glides overhead
Spying for a meal.
As if drawn to catch a glimpse of the unfolding miracle
Schoolies appear, bounding over the rippling waves
And scatter in the crest of a swell, suddenly exposed to their pursuer.
 
Somewhere in the distant expanse of sand,
A barking dog encourages his companion
And is heard above the roar
of the ocean's ebb and flow.
The light flickers a radiant bright,
The herald of something so rare…a new day
And goodbye to what came before….
A day, a night, a life.
The breeze subsides as if to pay homage
To the light which arrives unrelenting,
No fanfare, save a clear, inviting heaven of blue
And the promise eternal.
Surrounded by so much beauty
The meaning of all this invites me
Sun, oceans, breeze, all march in lockstep with time
And so must I.

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Not The End

I heard a nice saying today from Stuart MacLean on the Vinyl Cafe:

   "Everything always turns out all right in the end.  
   If it doesn't seem like it, then it's not the end."  

I reckon those are good words to live by, and probably there is no more succinct explanation of the logic of belief in an afterlife -- a belief that seems to transcend religion.

--Jick 10:45, 1 November 2006 (PST)

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