It's interesting to see places that I've been destroyed. Natural disasters are so massive in scale that often I can only think of them in the abstract, but when I can look at photos that I've taken and compare them to photos that I'm seeing in the news from Hurricane Sandy, it all becomes very real.
In the grand scheme of things, every landscape is temporary. Some are more temporary than others. I'm glad that I was able to experience a few years of the previous iteration of the barrier islands of New Jersey. I'm certain there will be rebuilding, but not everything should be rebuilt, nor will it. It will be the same as it was before and yet it won't. Life will go on, eventually, as it always does. This time with a more recent reminder that this land is just on loan to us. Enjoy it, bask in it, soak it in. It's not forever.
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