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There are moments of balance, moments of exquisite poise, when all the elements of the world seem to coalesce into a single perfect instant. To the left is motion…the joyous motion of a child at play. To the right is motion…the inexorable and unrelenting motion of the sea. And squatting in the middle is stability…the impeccable aplomb of a concentrating child.
It’s right that a child is at the center of it all. We tend to think of children as playful and simple, but children also bear the dignity and the outrage of true innocence. Only a child could build a sand castle with the absolute belief that it would withstand the tide, and only a child would be outraged at the injustice of the tide’s implacable and impersonal destruction of the sand castle.
So here we stand…or squat…at the center of the universe, balanced between time and tide, both shielded and made vulnerable by innocence, poised on the horizon between pleasure and the pitiless sea. And in this moment, we too can believe with a child’s innocence. We can construct our castle from a single grain of sand, content in the certainty that no tide is capable of deposing us.
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