the Sea

Hemingway's Santiago viewed the sea like a woman. I liked this quote when I read through the book recently and decided to keep it for myself...

"But the old man always thought of her (the sea) as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought."

(so it follows that should i do wild or wicked things, it is simply because I cannot help them)

thimble

We were spending the day on River Street, walking around a gift shop, when I said "Look Logan", handing her a souvenir thimble, unsure she had ever seen a real one before.
I wasn't remembering, but she was...
" A KISS!" she exclaimed and then fumed when I laughed at her remark...she doesn't like to be laughed at, even if she's been terribly funny (guess she gets it honest, eh?).
We didn't buy the kiss, or the thimble either, but what I found remarkable is that, having never been told anything different, and having never seen one in use, Logan, being told by Peter Pan that a thimble is a kiss believed it to be a kiss.
I wonder if I believe in anything like that- with the best intentions, but still in error.
Unless of course, you believe a thimble IS a kiss ... or could ever be one.
?

* photo courtesy of Kelly Burgess

santiago

Remember back when I told you I dreamed about Key West? Now we are scheduled to go at the end of month - or is it July? Either way, I'll bring you back a marlin.