168. March 14

I am in love with the ocean.

This was perhaps the best day of 2010--thus far.

I do not want to be one the those people who exhaust their audience with lengthy travel details or overwhelming amounts of pictures. That being said, how could I claim this as the possible best day of 2010 without photographic evidence?
Thank you Lori and Amber for a few of these shots.

 

 

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve." 

~ Jane Austen

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves." 

~ James Kavanaugh, There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves

(As quoted on www.goodreads.com. Mr. Kavanaugh, I hope I have this beautiful quote correct.)