Serene is sure a feeling that can escape us when we’ve got a lot on our plate. And lately, this photo is what’s been bringing me back to some semblance of serene.
Beautiful orcas in a sea of calm. I feel like perhaps they are dreaming. Diving, resting and just breathing in the night air. The last few weeks have been far too busy with one thing or another and although I know – we all do – that from time to time, it’s just how life is, I found myself longing for a touch of the serenity I see in this photo. I found myself wishing I could weave among them as kin where they would welcome me, not be afraid, and just share with me whatever they know and feel in the moment captured above.
“They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
~ Cormac McCarthy
But this period of so much going on has had its up-side, too. I have been on a real reading tear, loving diving into one book after another, middle grade, adult, picture books, no matter. Perhaps these books have all given me the respite I needed, new places to go, people to know, situations that grabbed my attention and heightened sensation. What a rich world books bring us.
OK, change of plans. I’ll sit on an outcropping of rocks next to the orcas, they with their dreams, me with my book, one in spirit under a full moon. Join me?
Still A Dreamer 
I’ll be right there, Jeanne! We all need that quiet, serene place to dream, breathe in the night air, or just listen to the wind.
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Even just sitting outside on the porch in late afternoon sunshine helps, chilly or not. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could be magically transported to visit one another? 🙂
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That would be wonderful! 🙂
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I will definitely join with you! Lovely post my friend. Diving into books is a sojourn into a beautiful world indeed.
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Would love to have you here sitting on the rocks beside me. And books are a welcome change of pace when I’ve been working on multiple projects at 80 mph!
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Yes, I’ll join you 🙂 You’ve summed up the last few weeks for me too – busy, with little time to think, but I’ve dived into a series of books by one author and am reading one every couple of days quite madly it seems!
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I’ve made room on the rocks and the orcas are smiling. 🙂 I am reading a series as well, but intermittently with other books because on the one hand, I’m not sure I want to read only one author one right after another (I’ve never done that before) and also because already I’m unable to get the second in the series from the library – all copies are out. I guess that’s the universe’s way of telling me to be spontaneous and read what comes?
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