While Joanne and I were writing in the sand I came across this. I found it an incredible example of the simple elegance and organic beauty found only in nature. It instantly reminded me of something I read by Ralph Waldo Emerson, that "the first and best form of art is nature itself".
(Society and Solitude; 1912)
It was just lying there on the beach being constantly washed over by the tide yet refusing to budge or break, a single strand of organic seaweed matter that had miraculously created a heart-like shape (so it seemed to me) by entwining its ends through each other like a shoelace that resembled one of Picasso's elegant single line drawings.
Its three loops also reminded me of a Japanese "Haiku". Little three part poems of Japanese philsosophy that Joanne introduced me to.
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