salting
spag mol essay
salting
We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think
Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel
‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen
There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Bittersweet: Susan Cain on the joy of sweet sorrow
open.spotify.comThe universality of salt. Our biological evolutionary ability to respond to our baby’s years when they’re vulnerable and needy. This radiates outwards to our compassion for anyone that we see crying; it makes us feel like we’re not ok until we relieve the other’s distress, it’s literally encoded into us physically, our vagus nerve. Our bodies are designed to process emotion on a person to person scale which is why a story of one person’s suffering can physically effect us more than a story of 10000 people’s suffering, something I know I feel by my numbesss to the weight of the world right now and my sensitivity to the struggles of friends around me. We can’t avoid this stuff.
Our body fluids contain about one percent salt, nowadays—very likely the exact salinity of whatever ancient sea we managed to crawl out of, a sea we could leave because we had learned, first of all, to contain it; and that sea is contained and remembered most crucially now in the heart, where salt sloshes back and forth between cells, forming the
... See moreif the ocean can calm itself so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air.
– meditation
Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
In Brasil we have a saying, ‘sem sal’, without salt. It means to be boring. And you don’t want to be that.
(British Vogue)
Add your salt to the sea.
(a friend, as I cried at the beach)