Sanctum

Whenever I find myself besieged in life’s moments these days, struggling to grasp the moment, I find myself out at the coast gazing out into the horizon. It is a practice that I came about early in my childhood when I desperately desired to escape the many troubled times of my youth. Way too often, I would gaze out beyond the range of my reality and wondered what it would be like to be someplace else, anywhere other than where I was at the moment. It was usually followed with wishes of being something different from what I was. I would seek shelter in those thoughts, a sanctum no one could ever find me or allowed in.

It wasn’t till many years later that I began to understand what that was about. It has since evolved beyond this desire to escape my life, but rather a practice to connect myself to the world around me and the emotions that arise as events unfold around me. The coast is one of two places that provide me the peace and serenity that brings me perspective and connects me to my life. A long view outward to journey inward.

Sanctum

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