Tsunami Saturday

You know you’re not in the land-locked Midwest any more when your village is watching the sea for tsunamis.

An 8.8 earthquake 6,000 miles away in Chile has sent a roiling ocean our way. My perspective has literally and figuratively changed so much since moving to the shores of the Pacific.

Six-thousand miles away and we feel it here. The ocean connects us. It doesn’t separate us.

 That thought reminds of something the Sufi poet Rumi wrote:




“The shop of Oneness,
The Ocean that has many harbours,
Yet where there is no division
Between man and man, or woman,
But only a unity of souls
In the process of return to their Creator,
Whose breath lives inside each one
An helps to guide us home.”

The San Francisco Chronicle has published the following graphic that explains how the tsunami waves have traveled across the Pacific to our shores.

Watch a live-feed of Aliso Beach in Laguna Beach HERE

The photo above is from the Laguna Beat Web site.

UPDATE, 8:15 pm: Three footers, that’s all, folks. Still, Mother Earth’s stretchings are impressive.