I love when low tide coincides with my morning walk, as it did today. It tempts me off the path, into rocky coves and crevasses, where I lose track of time as I see things that at other times are hidden. Like this glorious anemone.
In some ways, the current pandemic is like low tide, revealing things that normally are hidden in our high-tide lives. Things that are always there, both beautiful and not so much.
Friendships, allowed to loosen because we are so busy, reveal themselves as beautiful and fragile, and urge us to tend to them. Other relationships, born of proximity and convenience, may reveal themselves as toxic rather than life-giving. We may discover that some habits we have acquired in “normal” times are not suited to this new time, like a fish out of water, while others continue to give us life.
We are seeing new things about ourselves, our communities, and our world. Some of it is terrible and some of it is beautiful. I wonder, when the tide comes back in, how much we will remember about what lies beneath. And how we will allow that knowledge to change us for good. I suppose it will depend in large part on how much attention we pay now, while the tide is low.
Take some time to veer off the path, into the nooks and crannies of your life. What is being revealed today?
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