Early morning. An ocean the gauzy color\nof green and gray rolled in loud. A bit of fog. Dead kelp in piles\nand strands laid strewn across the beach. It was almost if they had\nbeen invaders from the sea and repulsed by a crack defense team\ncomprised of gulls, otters and bears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it wasn’t an invasion, merely an\nuprooted underwater forest just offshore, torn asunder by the action\nof the waves. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kelp had died and their death must be\nhonored. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A man discovered the carnage and began\nbuilding a fort to honor the dead. He found two pieces of beaverwood\ntied together with kelp in the shape of a cross. A cross was\ncertainly the wrong imagery for a death of this kind, but nature had\nprovided it and who was he not to top off the fort with the cross\nwhen there it was? Everything is fair game in fort building! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He built the fort and wrapped it in\nkelp. He mounted the cross atop the fort. It might freak out a\nbeachcombing Christian zealot or convert him to the Gods of Kelp on\nthe spot. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The builder would never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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