The Water Theme
July 4, 2008
I love the ocean.
I’ve redesigned more than a few templates over the past few years, mostly on my political blog, The Democratic Daily, but today, I also just finished a redesigned template for my two business website blogs — Aromatherapywholesale.com and Aromatherapygoddess.com.
Setting up this blog today was a long overdue whim. When I ran across this theme while searching for a theme I could redesign, I realized this theme was just about perfect as is, at least for now. I lived on the coast of Massachusetts for 33 years. I was never more than a 5 – 10 mile drive from the ocean.
For the past 18 1/2 years, I’ve lived in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley and it’s just a bit farther than comfortable for my taste. I miss being able to drive to the ocean every day, if the spirit moves me.
So, in lieu of daily trips to the ocean and and a more rural lifestyle, I settle for photographs of the seaside and lovely potted garden outside of my apartment door.
All said and done, this theme suits my mood for now… For I long to be by the ocean on a daily basis. Perhaps it’s because I just finished reading Ahab’s Wife and it made me home sick for Massachusetts and the rich seafaring history of my hometown, Newburyport. Or perhaps, it’s just because I miss the ocean.
Last summer I spent a few days out in Malibu housesitting for a friend and on the last day, sitting on the rocks at the ocean’s edge I realized how totally empty my my mind was of all my worries and cares. It was just me and the movement of the waves. Still, but flowing. Relaxed and renewed. It’s time for a vacation. Or at the least a day trip to the beach.
Enough rambling for now…
