The Atlantic Coast
The old man and the sea
Walking along the Atlantic Coast I had to think about the beautiful book of Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea:
“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never alone, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”
The above quotation often attributed to Hemingway, but actually going back to Jules Verne — yet it perfectly aligns with his thinking about the sea.
When walking along the coast of Normandy gives an extra dimension, since it brings us back to D-Day when many soldiers lost their lives for our freedom.
The Old Ocean
You are not kind,
but you are true.
Your hands are salt and wind,
your breath — forever moving.
I have watched you break the light,
watched you take it back.
You give nothing freely,
yet you give meaning to struggle.
Some call you mother,
some call you grave.
I call you what you are —
the only horizon
that never ends.
More photo’s of the Normandy (click) you will find in a special series in our France folder on SmugMug.
