“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly”, said Van Morrison. The aqua sea on the French coast is warming up and I check the temperature each day. My minimum is 21.5 degrees and it is almost there for a real swim. Otherwise, cold dips are the only option. On the beach, there are so many different cultures but we all act the same. Watching us enter the cool sea with anticipation, we all go “oh!’ at the first small cold wave. Then splash our arms and shoulders as if that will warm up the water. Finally, different nationalities plunge in with a grimace, a squeal, thrash around and most of us get out. No common language is spoken so loudly as the desire to feel the salt water on our skin under a blue sky and Khalil Gibran sums it up saying, “in one drop of water are found all of the secrets of the ocean; in one aspect of you are found all the aspects of existence”.
