Chris,

Nice analogy, but you didn't insult anyone in it.

Are you sure you're posting this on the right forum?

...Bill!

--- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> It has been a year since I jumped in the waves, so I stand in the water a
> newbie, unacquainted with the ebb and flow.  There is no controlling the
> water, merely seeing clearly and responding appropriately.
> 
> Waves roll ceaselessly-sometimes my eager mind wants me to jump in front of
> a wave before the wave has arrived.  Sometimes my regretful mind wants me
> to jump after a wave already gone.  Sometimes, I wait and jump with the
> wave, caught up into the swirling process of breaking on the shore, pushed
> along into the shore, not caring or worrying for a thing just knowing the
> exultant motion of life: balanced between air and water, rolling along,
> held tenderly in the center, the wave and rider are flung together with
> sand and foam and shells and motion and seaweed and friction and light . .
> eventually I emerge, the wave gone, and stand up and drain the water from
> my sinuses and nose and eyes, establishing some idea of inside and outside,
> and walk to the waves.
>




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