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Although I am in my late 40’s I am among the youngest people on the ship. We are on a paddlewheel steamboat cruising toward Glacier Bay in Alaska. The majority of the passengers stand in a ring on the upper deck; whales were spotted. The captain has stopped the engines, 200 people stand in silence, scanning the water in reverent expectation. The late afternoon air is cool yet the sun is warm. The gulls hover above the passenger’s heads and like Protestants visiting a Catholic church, they maintain an uneasy silence, uncertain of the next steps in the human’s vigil.
Suddenly a whale breaches 100 feet off to the starboard side. And another. And another. It is an explosion of play as if the whales have decided to perform for us.
The portside passengers rush starboard; people are generous, making space for all to see. The assembly hums with veneration, witnesses to something holy.
In the midst of it all I am taken by the thought: why are we so capable of seeing the beauty and feeling awe for the whales and are so incapable of seeing the magnificence in each other? How would we be together in the world if we afforded ourselves the same reverence that we offer to the whales?
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David, thank you for your stories and your light, gentle, powerful touch.
As always David your voice echos my deepest desires – I too seek a world were we can be in awe of the beauty and majesty in each other and all things on this planet and not for a moment but continuously – for then we will love and cherish each other and our planet. I particualy like this quote “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other” – Mother Teresa