Sometimes, when you get away from home, and get out of your normal routine, you begin to think about things differently.

There are moments when you may find yourself sitting and contemplating everything… or absolutely nothing at all.   It could be the very profound, or perhaps something on the complete other end of the scale.  But the time for slowing down, and thinking, is definitely there.   I attribute this to the water, or more to the point, the vastness of the water.

When something is great, and so much larger than ourselves… it can make us wonder.  About who we are, where we came from, and how we fit in to all of this.  This.  Which surrounds us.

Why do I matter?  Or more succinctly…. do I matter?  Where I am going?  What am I doing?   Learning is finding out.  Sometimes it means finding out what we already know.

Obviously, those are the more profound questions.  But sometimes… it is little things…. like… “How did all these cats get on this island?”  “Where did One-Eyed Willie die?  If Brian Williams exaggerated… and got six months….  does that mean FOX News will be run off the air completely?  Just how big is a reef shark?  When did shade become a commodity?

And on and on and on.

So, at times like these, it may not be so important that we get immediate answers.  It just me be that we ask these things because they needed to be asked…. and nothing more.