High tide? YOU LIVE IN THE DESERT

by: Jesse Gaver

This picture is why I named my blog High Tide.  

Since I ripped it out of a magazine almost 5 years ago I've carried it around as a reminder that change can either ruin you or make you. Tons of recent changes have tempted me to share this, graduation, friends moving, and starting new a career path, but today there was another significant change particularly inspiring, prompting me to share with you, what High Tide comes from. 

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The full Quote reads:

"Every one of us is called upon,

probably many times, to start a new life.

A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...

And onward full tilt we go, 

pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, 

driven in spite of everything,

 to make good on a new shore.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another-

that is surely the basic instinct...

Crying out: HIGH TIDE!

Time to move into the glorious debris.

Time to take this life for what it is.

-Barbara Kingsolver,

High Tide in Tucson