a blue true dream of sky

Sometimes I forget where I am.

I have been reintroduced to the ocean the past couple of weeks. Last weekend I went to Crane beach for the afternoon with a couple of friends. I spent the time people watching and drawing in the sand while looking out on the deep blue ocean.

Today I went to Ocean's Lawn with my friend Natalie. It is part of the Coolidge Reservation (I think that is right...) Anyway - it is beautiful. The shore is very rocky and you can look out and see the ocean go on and on. There are a few little islands right off shore and in between them a smattering of sailboats. As we stood there, we contemplated how we were at the foot of the ocean. We were at the edge of the rest of the world. It was breathtaking. It took my breath away to see such beauty in creation. It also took my breath away to think that I am only a small part of that creation. But then I thought - I am grateful to be a part at all.

Seeing such wonder in nature made me think of a song that the choir sang. The lyrics are a poem from e.e. cummings. I leave you with his words to describe how I felt today - he captures it better than I ever could.

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)