The Sea in my veins

From my page-a-day "Little Zen Calendar", which I was able to salvage from my house in Bay St. Louis yesterday:

The entry for Sunday, August 28, 2005, the day before Katrina's landfall and the storm surge that put 4 to 5 feet of saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico in my home:

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flows in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you.

-- Thomas Traherne

The entry for Monday, August 29, 2005:

And so, for the first time in my life perhaps I took the lamp, and went down to my inmost self. But as I moved further and further from the conventional certainties, I became aware that I was losing contact with myself. At each step of the descent a new person was disclosed within me ... and when I had to stop my exploration because the path faded, I found a bottomless abyss at my feet, and out of it came -- arising I know not whence -- the current which I dare to call my life.

-- Teilhard de Chardin

Comments

[Sharon]

Oh, my. There is no explanation for that, is there? I stopped by to see if you had posted because sometimes Bloglines doesn't kick in right away. Out of curiosity I clicked on your Katrina Diary. I am going to read it from the beginning to the end. I had no idea....

[Kitty]

Thanks, Sharon. You've inspired me to re-read it as well ... I think it has some things to tell me now.