Friday, December 1, 2017

A Grey Life

I took the photo this morning, on our Atlantic coast, the grey of the ocean blending with the grey of the sky. I once was called out to a man who was suicidal -- and found him at the ocean's edge, on a day like this. He said: "What do you see?" I said: "It’s beautiful. The way the sky and the sea merge into one. The movement of the mist and the waves." He said: "I only see grey. That’s my life. Grey." OBSERVATION: He checked in to a clinic that day, but he made a number of suicide attempts after that. The last of them left him a cripple.

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