{"id":3785,"date":"2011-08-30T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2011-08-30T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T01:00:10","slug":"i-am-too-long-away-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2011\/08\/30\/i-am-too-long-away-from-water\/","title":{"rendered":"I am too long away from water…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t see an ocean until I was 14 years old.\u00a0 I didn’t take a dip in the ocean until I was 35.\u00a0 And I didn’t begin to learn its currents until three years ago.\u00a0 But now….I can hardly go more than a few days without connecting with the ocean again–I am literally hungry for it.\u00a0 Like this weekend, when I felt such a restlessness until I was out bobbing in the surf (again).<\/p>\n

I’m beginning to wonder what will happen when I eventually move from this place. I know I won’t live in SoCal forever–so will I find some other love to replace that of the sea?<\/p>\n

Exiled (an excerpt)<\/p>\n

Searching my heart for its true sorrow,
\nThis is the thing I find to be:
\nThat I am weary of words and people,
\nSick on the city, wanting the sea;<\/p>\n

Wanting the sticky, salty sweetness
\nOf the strong wind and shattered spray;
\nWanting the loud sound and the soft sound
\nOf the big surf that breaks all day…<\/p>\n

If I could see the weedy museels
\nCrusting the wrecked and rotting hulls,
\nHear once again the hungry crying
\nOverhead, of the wheeling gulls…<\/p>\n

I should be happy, that am happy
\nNever at all since I came here
\nI am too long away from water.
\nI have a need of water near.<\/p>\n

~Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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