Love Is As Dangerous As The Sea.

(After a couple of days in the sea, land looks to be a bit different.)

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore”

- Vincent van Gogh


Love is as enticing and as dangerous as the sea.

- Ghostwise

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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.

- e.e. cummings


I search the sea -
And found the sea.

- Ghostwise

Sunset On A Long Boat.

(You can watch a sunset from a hill, from the plain or from the shore and the sensations are all different. But my favorite view of the setting sun is while adrift on a boat with nothing between me and the sinking sun. I had that opportunity again two days ago just after a timely rain cleared the air for the sun to display its full brilliance.)

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon

Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape;

Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest

Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

Drifting on a long boat as the sky and sea burns, you do not witness a sunset, you are part of it.

- Ghostwise

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After a day of cloud and wind and rain

Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,

And touching all the darksome woods with light,

Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing,

Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring,

Drops down into the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hanging of the Crane

On the day you witness a setting sun, the night always appear a little kinder.

- Ghostwise

In The Hand Of One Who Had Been Through Rough Seas.

(Yesterday, I was taken on a spin on a fast boat for several hours through choppy seas by one who understands the water. For one whose feet are always planted firmly on the land, I view the sea with a mixture of awe and admiration...)

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

- H.M. Tomlinson


We are always a little nervous of what we don't understand.

- Ghostwise

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

- African Proverb


Glad am I to be in a boat manned by one who had been through rough seas.

- Ghostwise

The Pearl,

(Last night I stayed in a hotel called Pearl View looking across at Penang, our "Pearl Of The Orient". Today's post is about pearl.)

“Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase”

- John Balguy


It is said the best pearl is produced in a calm sea.

- Ghostwise

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“In the town they tell the story of the great pearl—how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man’s mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people’s hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere."

“If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it..."

- John Steinbeck ("The Pearl")


If you found a pearl of great value and thought it a curse of bad luck, would you throw it back into the sea?

- Ghostwise

The End Of A Turburlent Waterfall.

(Today, I visited the lovely Chamang Waterfall in Bentong, Pahang and was wowed by its ferocious beauty. I dedicate today's post to it. The visit to Chamang Waterfall will be described in a future post in Ghost Walk.)

“A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.”

- Author Unknown.


But when I stood before the waterfall today, I feel only its strength.

- Ghostwise

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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

- Mikhail Lermontov


What does this say of our beginning? And what does this say of our end?

- Ghostwise

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveler to the shore.
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.


The sea calls. Whether you heed it or not, the tide rises, the tide falls.

- Ghostwise

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At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.

- Thai Proverb


Tht tide favors neither ants nor fish.

- Ghostwise