🚿(under)water

If you don’t have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.

‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen

Maybe the real value of leaving your pond for the ocean is to access scale.

For years, I had a selfish lens on the fish in the pond metaphor. I thought about how I could’ve stayed the smartest fish in my pond if I had remained in my pond. I debated and discussed the advantages of being a small fish in a large pond - how it widened my horizons and ga

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
―Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

cosmic tide — the idea that the whole life of the universe—from the big bang to the collapsing of the universe—is just one wave in an “ocean” that’s beyond space time. What if the comedy and tragedy and all possible beautiful and all potential forms of life within our plenum is just the crashing of a single wave? It is a loop, a wave, a heartbeat,

Song of the sea

“whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal”