Literati,
A totem is a spritual being that takes the form of an animal that we most identify with, and for me, it is the Gray Whale. My first love was diving, leading to my first career as a commercial diver off the coast of Southern California. While preparing to dive from my small skiff off Catalina Island, I was baptized by the spray of a Gray Whale passing by.
The Tears of God
by thorn sully
When God created the Earth and the Oceans and populated the world with all manner of creatures, He smiled, pleased with himself. But when He created mankind in his own image, He wept, knowing his children would inherit not only his virtues, but his flaws.
The tears that God cried plummeted formlessly through the firmament, but upon plunging into the oceans, they became the great whales, the embodiment of His remorse and humility, to meander unfettered in God’s vast ocean.
When a whale is harpooned, or caught in a fisherman’s net, or stranded on a beach, suffering, we feel a collective sadness.
For are they not the tears of God?
