The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.