Friday, July 18, 2014

The Beach Chronicles: Remember the Sea


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Maybe it was the sun that faded into the deepest ocean. My thoughts, buried along with all tired emotions, turned and settled within me. I was the ocean, and I was the sky, almost dark, almost complete.

The waves were peaking. I felt my heart clutch, wind itself around the others which braved the dusk with me, the ocean connecting us, binding us. The heartbeat that was ours. We knew it as well as any unknowable thing might be captured in our finite minds. Our endless souls. I swept my eyes about the shore. Most of the boys, my siblings too, had left the water, severing themselves from the greater pulse of life, dying to a little part of their soul.

I was still burning, my heart, or the sea, still pumping. There was a boy beside me. I didn't know him well, his face almost a stranger in the dark, but our heartbeat, our ocean -- for at that moment it was only ours -- was the same. And in that moment, a beautiful, strange moment, it was perfection. The veil was lifted for a moment. This is Emily's flash, I thought. A glimpse into what we will know when we are finally completed.

I caught a wave, and the usual flutter of thoughts, indiscernible and scrambled, were absent. Remember this, I thought, as the wave peeled over me, and I carved down, an egg shaped hole of twilight guiding me out. remember. This is home. To my bones, I felt home.

At the end of the wave the salt water swallowed me, churned me up with the sand, and I was back to normality. Waiting, walking, running for the finish line.

But the veil was lifted for a moment. remember. A promise, His promise for the redeemed.

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.
I am, I am, I am.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

23 comments:

  1. Oh, wow! The pictures of the ocean are beautiful, and so is the writing! I really love how you referred to Emily's flash. She's probably my favorite L.M. Montgomery character ever.

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    1. Thanks so much! Yes, Emily is one of mine, too. She's wonderful.

      Also, thank you for the nomination! I've actually been working on typing it up (it takes me at a while ;)).

      Love,
      Rebekah

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  2. Beautiful words, beautiful photos. It makes me so happy when you post. <3

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    1. Also, I'm reading The Bell Jar today. And you know my thoughts on Emily of New Moon.

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    2. Dear Lydia,

      You know how much your complements mean to me. :)
      I need to know your thoughts on The Bell Jar! And yes, I do.
      Love,
      Rebekah

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  3. RE.BEK.AH. O_O Duude, this is so brilliant-- YOU are so brilliant! Your words are literally perfect. The feelings you described about the waves and the connection, and the ocean's heartbeat uniting us all, oh my goodness, that is such a familiar feeling to me. And in fact, it's even more than just a feeling really, it's a knowing. Because, like you so awesomely put it, it's like the veil is lifting and you are seeing something so real and true and perfect-- His promise, resounding in the pounding pulse of the ocean. I love it. You are a magnificent writer.

    So I am super stoked because I'm going to make that header I am doing for you my weekend project! So I'm going to go back and read your facebook message which I've been so terrible at responding to in a timely fashion -_- and I shall have something to send you soonly!

    SO glad to see you posting, gurl!
    Love you & God bless,

    Kate

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    1. Dear Katie,

      Thank you so much! Your words mean a world to me. I'm so glad we have the connection of the ocean. It is a wonderful connection.

      Also, thank you so much for the header! I'll send you a message about them asap. But spoiler alert: I love them! And please, please stop apologizing for the not responding in a timely manner. You know me. ;)

      Love,
      Rebekah

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    2. Ahhhhh, DUDE, I love the way the header looks! Eeepp! ^_^ We need to catch up gurl, I miss you bunches!

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  4. THIS. Yesyesyes. Love. Beautiful, simply beautiful. So many of my favourite things rolled in your words, like souls, the ocean, and Home. PS, so happy to see a new post! xxx.

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    1. Thank you. Some of my favorite things, too.
      I know. I'm really slow at posting but I want to get better.
      Love,
      Rebekah

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  5. Hey Rebekah!
    I've nominated you for the Liebster Award. :) http://thesilverflute.blogspot.com/2014/07/liebster-award.html

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  6. I cannot even tell you how much of a beautiful writer you are -- your words are so REAL; they spring to life on my screen! And your photographs? Simply stunning. xx

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    1. Thank you, Acacia. You are the best.
      I love your words and your photography so it means the world to me.
      Love,
      Rebekah

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  7. Beautifully written little one....I loved every part, and could envision it in my 'minds eye' ...

    "We all come from the sea, but we are not all of the sea...Those of us who are, we children of the tides, must return to it again and again, until the day we don't come back, leaving only that which was touched along the way..."


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    1. Thanks, dear sister.

      That is an amazing quote, too.
      Love,
      me
      P.S. Wave-catching lessons soon?

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    2. it's from Chasing Mavericks....my new fav for boring nights..

      love you more

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  8. Oh my goodness, Rebekah. Your words are so beautiful to me. I can resonate with them so well. And your descriptions of the ocean and everything was perfect. So poetic, flowing, sensual. <3 your writing never ceases to amaze me.
    And your pictures never cease to make me wish so much that I lived in Hawaii. THOSE WAVES. Imma cry.
    Love you, dude! Keep writing, keep surfing. that's where it's at. (:

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    1. Dear Mel,

      Thank you. I love, love your writing also. You are the coolest.

      Come visit me. Both of you! I'll take you around the breaks. :) But seriously.
      Love,
      Rebekah

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  9. I love your author voice; it's so matchless, I'm doubtless it would prick my ears from anywhere.
    if I'm strolling through India one day and see a news article written by you under some cringeful pen-name,
    I'd say 'ahh, here's the artist again!'
    you write like someone in love with the living of it all.
    thumbs up.

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    1. You would be strolling through India. There are great things in store for you, darling.
      I am quite fond of life. Always have been.
      Love you.

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  10. Beautiful words. Beautiful pictures. You wrote wonderfully! - Jollygirl from the blog: http://reflectionsofajollygirl.blogspot.com

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    1. Thank you so much! I appreciate it. :)
      Love,
      Rebekah

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  11. this is beautiful. so beautiful.

    xoxo

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