I walked a secret beach as the light\ncame up. My mind moved in concert with the ocean rolling in to my\nleft. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the distance, at the wrack line, I\nsaw an enormous piece of driftwood positioned in such a way that all\nits branches shot straight up into the sky. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I adjusted my course to investigate and\nbeheld a sixty-foot trunk of a willow. There were beaver marks its\nentire length. It was the single largest piece of beaverwood I’d ever\nencountered. It might be the biggest one on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it was still alive! Green buds were\nsprouting forth into tiny little branches. It might live for years. A\nhigh tide might lift into a nearby place where it could reroot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started gathering wood to build a\nfort within this titanic piece of beaverwood. I built. I interlocked.\nI hoisted. More wood. More building. More bending and weaving of the\nbranches and spars. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I stepped back to apprise the fort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was no fort. I was building a portal\nof some kind, one with no front or rear entrance. Just an entrance,\nan opening to somewhere in the mind, the heart, to freedom, to bliss.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One simply had to walk through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I realized I’d never built a portal\nbefore. It just came to me as I built with driftwood. I never build\nwith any preconceived notion. I just let it flow. That is why I build\non the beach and will continue to build forts or portals or thrones\nuntil I die \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just start building and see where it\ngoes. Writing is sometimes like that for me, but making something out\nof driftwood is something entirely different in my creative mind.\nBody, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You sweat when you build. I don’t sweat\nwhen I write. There’s something right there. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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