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Ocean Pathway. April 13, 2020. Photo by Stephen Goldfinger, special to Blogfinger © click to see an enlarged vista.

By Stephen Goldfinger, special to Blogfinger.

There was a storm today with a darkened sky, ominously howling winds, and heavy rain. This went on continuously all morning and afternoon, until strangely,  it all abruptly stopped, and almost instantaneously, it was a sunny, late afternoon, spring day.  It was literally like some kind of “new dawn” of  which the poets speak, and all of this occurred just about an hour prior to dusk.

Suddenly, as if a divine hand were ushering them forth, people gradually began coming out from their shelter-in-place spots, one by one, and two by two, and in small groups,  almost as if it were a collective pilgrimage east, moving along Ocean Pathway and inexorably onwards towards the beach.

The moistened air, gusting breathily in salty swells, felt soothing and balmy, and the light was strangely preternatural, almost a surreal, golden hue, as the sun began its slow descent. Enhancing this almost mythic post-storm panorama was the relentless roar of the ocean, astir in a roiling rush of waves which surged and crumbled into a creamy blanket of white foam.

I passed a couple who made note of the ocean’s ebullient disposition, and I simply replied that like the rest of  us, the sea was letting loose!

JOE BROWN  from the Concert for George  (George Harrison wrote this song.)