I watched an interview with the musician, Noah Lennox from Animal Collective awhile ago. He answered a particular question with some thoughts about finding a good place to settle down. His current home is in Lisbon, Portugal and he explained how he has never lived somewhere that was not close to a body of water. He went on to say that living somewhere separated from a body of water would have a noticeable negative impact.
I’m not sure if you can count living two hours from Virginia Beach and east of Philadelphia as living near the Atlantic Ocean for my whole life. But after I watched Lennox’s interview I thought about the copious amount of time I spent at Virginia Beach with my grandparents as a child. And I’d like to think it had a lot of good influence when I was growing up.
I think a lot of people who would take this class might not recognize how vital water is to our Earth’s wilderness. I think the calm appearance of oceans from a shoreline contrasted with its underrated power and strength create a really inspiring effect for people. I wonder how Belden Lane would go about perceiving water as a sacred place. It would be difficult because as forests constantly look different, water looks the same at all times. And the thought that one place in an ocean can be sacred while 10 miles to the east is just normal water seems outlandish. But I’m convinced, that oceans or rivers can provide a person an opportunity to truly enter a sacred place.
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