Pondering life outside safe harbour

Perspective
Port Stanley, ON
July 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Stare at a harbour long enough and a few things become apparent:

The sea - or in this case, the Great Lake - can be unforgiving.

So everything here is designed to shelter, to protect, to signal safe haven.

But it all depends on your direction: head toward the horizon and there’s a line where you leave it all behind.

The danger is always just out there.

So we build great things to keep it at bay: piers, breakwaters, lighthouses.

We dredge the water to keep it safe and functional.

We work the waters and the shores to keep it alive.

A community’s way of sheltering from the storm, of creating jobs, of driving opportunity.

Of telling the waters just beyond that we revere and respect them just as we recognize their perils.

But we also need to carve out a bit of a life for ourselves, too.

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