Sea Within

Sea Within

The Sea Within
The Sea Within

I once met a man who inspired me greatly. At his encouragement, I went on to accomplish all manner of things in the ocean. Of course it was not by his urging alone, but for some reason, he was my catalyst, and the reaction which occurred as a result of his input, wed my life to the sea.

Many years later, as I sat with a writer pal of mine at the man’s home on the sand near Santa Barbara, he recounted his life before the Multiple Sclerosis morphed him into a creature who could do no exploits. “I lived my entire life in the span of 8 years” he had said. He did grand and wonderful things at the helm of a dory, a sailboat, paddleboard, and on a surfboard. He lived his ocean experience in a time when the grand and golden California burgeoned and beckoned to the world at large with a pristine ocean, replete with salty, gusto laden vitality.

Engaged
Engaged

As I knelt down, and apologized for my lens which set dead square upon him for a memorial portrait, he looked me straight in the eye and said: “Don’t you just love the feel of that cool crisp water, as it envelopes you?”

And at that point I “got it”.

What a gift.

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Mason Van Valin says it well with Ghost Love

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Mike Delanzo

nice david!
ssfec Engineered

Eric P

Exactly

Ed Brenegar

Even as a “mountain man”, I get it.

Charlie Witmer

The answer to question, “Don’t you just love the feel of that cool crisp water, as it envelopes you ? ” is the distillation of why we do what we do and literally immerse ourselves in our ocean work. What a treasure this man was. YES.

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