There’s a scene in the movie Contact where Jodie Foster is talking to God or aliens or something.

The closest experiential thing to the loving energy this being beyond human consciousness was that human comprehension could handle was the shorthand of walking alongside water.

Even many of those among us who are terrified to enter the waves access a semblance of peace alongside it. Theory connects it to the womb.

I connect it to us being made primarily of water, leaking it in the most extreme throes of our emotions.

There is a stash- an actual stash – of videos in the immunity arsenal that are oceanside strolls, a move learned being landlocked one too many times, pawing through youtube 10 hr crashing waves videos ( that I was truly grateful for)to Center myself until I could make my way back to the coast.