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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Daily Cascade
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas " became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.
Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.
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January 14, 2026 at 11:59am January 14, 2026 at 11:59am
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Prompt:
"It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. "
Jon J. Muth
Write about this quote in your Blog entry today.
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For some reason, I love this quote. So, let me explore why I loved it, at first sight. Up front, I saw right away that it had an inkling of Rumi in it, as Rumi said, "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” I think Rumi's drop has been converted to a wave in this quote. Either way, both quotes challenge the idea of separation. If the entire ocean can exists in a wave or a drop, that boundary between “self” and “world” is insignificant.
Talking for myself, my life experiences are not disconnected from those of what the entire humanity may have experienced or will experience. Mine is just a tiny bit of it. As such, my joys as well as my griefs are shared, maybe in different and varying forms, but still they tend to unite us all. In other words, what I may feel privately, it may also be deeply universal, although, at this place and time, I may not be aware of it.
I can also detect empowerment in this quote. Seeing myself as just a small wave can lead to passivity. It may make me think, "What difference can I make?" But, on the contrary, if the whole ocean is in me or in anyone else somehow, then our actions, thoughts, and choices carry weight.
Also, I tend to think the quantum theory of today, which connects the entire universe, is heading in that direction. Plus, Alexandre Dumas has in The Three Musketeers. "All for one, one for all." I wouldn't want to mess with any of those three musketeers in any way, would I!
At the end, this quote invites us to direct our attention inward. It means to say, depth already exists within. In the same vein, a search for oneself, to get to know oneself, can mean to touch the infinite, which is what the ocean represents. As such, change may emerge from a single, tiny point of awareness or person who may very well make a huge difference for the entire world.
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