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 |   Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life. |
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I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance? I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them. Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog. |
| Everyone has heard of a “fish tale”. A fish tale is another way of saying “big lie”. The term refers to the expectation that a fisherman is likely to exaggerate when reporting the size of the fish he’s caught. But what about the size of the fish that caught the fisherman? A couple of weeks ago, a local lobster fisherman had a whale of a fish tale to tell. While diving to the bottom of the cold Atlantic to check his lobster traps, he found himself suddenly immersed in darkness. He thought at first that he had been swallowed by a Great White Shark, but the absence of teeth slicing into him or chomping on his bones told him that could not be the case. In fact, he had been swallowed by a feeding humpback whale. Luckily for him, he was able to reinsert his breathing apparatus and get oxygen until the whale decided to spit him out. Amazingly, he came through the experience without any serious injury. The tale is remarkable for the fact that it is not that rare or unheard of. This lobster fisherman was not the first man to tell this kind of fish tale, nor was he the first since Jonah. I knew you were thinking of him. All my life, the biblical tale of Jonah and the whale has been called into question by skeptics and defended with alternative explanations by religious scholars, but it seems that there is no explanation required. If you are in the area of a big whale with its mouth open, you might get swallowed up in the great rush of water going into its mouth. It makes me want to revisit Moby Dick. Maybe it wasn’t just a fish tale, after all. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-lobsterman-found-himself-in-a-whale-e2-80-99... |
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Not quite what I meant. "Pufts" was a sidelong reference to the famous dog show, Crufts