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Blood and seawater

Underlined in a Rachel Carson book

somewhere on my bookshelf is a

paragraph that discusses the simi-

larities between human blood and

seawater, a remnant of life’s origins

in the sea. I imagine that inside our

body we carry the sea wherever we

go. But I want to flip this thought.

Maybe it’s not me carrying the sea,

but the sea who has shaped itself

as me. I am trying to imagine how

to lose this distinction between self

and our environments: how to imag-

ine that you are the sea, or a forest,

or the atmosphere.

– David Horvitz

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