hlsteed:
"The beach is in our blood. Everyone...returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles."
hlsteed:
“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.”
hlsteed:
"I [Aphrodite] should find some favour with the sea, for in its holy depths in days gone by from sea-foam I was formed, and still from foam I take my name in Greece."
hlsteed:
"I remember when the whales had wings, she said. Whatever happened? I said. It got to be too noisy with all the airplanes & other stuff, so they flew into the ocean & never came back. Some days, she added, I think about going too."
hlsteed:
"If we all jumped up & down at the same time, I said, I'll bet we could move the world. She nodded. I'd throw in five bucks toward it, she said, just to see the old man get his butt off the couch."
hlsteed:
"We need a letter that's like i & u together for when we're doing stuff like this, he said & I hugged him & said a lot of people want a letter like that."