Susan's Reviews > Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains

who hasn't walked a beach and right where the tide stops investigated the objects washed ashore in all their varied strewn configurations. a haphazard assemblage of the living and the used and the dead and the treasured. surely we think about our lives upon picking up a shell and turning it over in the palm of our hands or finding someone's sunglasses scraped by the constant motion of wave and sand. what does the wrack line tell us about ourselves, what we value, how we chose to live? i especially like the vignettes on sea nettles and sea glass. what the sea takes and brings back to us.......