Irrelevant

Baby salmon sharks wash up on shore
In my hometown
Malfunctioning swim bladders lead to imbalances in temperature
Causing meningitis in the brain
Even famous predators
Are beholden to bacteria

Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

There’s really no point in trying to write about something uninteresting, so I cheated and chose something algorithmically perfect to talk about–a poor little shark that washed up on my native coastal shore.

I love all of the things that wash up on the beach, like the planet gifting us with some strange token of affection from the deep, a glimpse of how it is in that secondary (or primary) residence of Earth. This alien world reveals itself to those willing to seek it out.

As someone who was born on the coast, it blows my mind, knowing there are people who have never seen the ocean. There are those who live their entire lives without feeling the cold surf crash and wrap around your ankles.

Maybe the shore is the same for the creatures of the ocean as the beach is for us. There are those in the world who will never see where our worlds converge.

With love,

JJC