Now that he has past through our life, safely and soundly bye and bye I can speak without risking any feeling of better thee than me. And I’m not, I swear this time, not going to show any feigned disappointed bravado. People like me who know and appreciate the blows that boil then coil on the sea know we stand astride a grey line between relishing the whip of the wind and the sting of the rain and punch of the ocean as only as it is propelled and inflected by a force of nature and hoping a bit too much for potential of loss and harm. That is, though, part of the bargain. Ultimately it is out of our meager control. Humans are notoriously egocentric and are compulsive about needing to control and apply order to all things. Embracing the undeniable is liberating.
