I found this creation on the beach while walking home with my mom from a delicious dinner at Chez Loma. I continued my walk, then returned to take a few photos. I wish I'd seen the master at work. He took a simple element: sand, and turned it into an enjoyable artifact. I wasn't the only person taking photos-wanting to make it last, because it was after all, a sandcastle.
The creation out of sand got me thinking about the simplicity of words and how the right combination can make us laugh, cry or change our lives. Yet words are just representations put to symbolic lines, dots, arches. Unlike sandcastles, the right combination of words can last forever: the constitution, marriage vows, ancient texts, famous speeches. Yet, so much that is written will, like sandcastles, get washed away with the outgoing tide.
This comparison makes me want to excel at building great word combinations with the power to endure.
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