Existential Salmon Collection - Blog Posts
"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.
"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"
"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."
"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."
"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.
"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."
"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."
"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.
"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.
"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."
"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."
"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."
![[Image ID: An illustrated comic. It pans down water rushing through a creek, into three separate panels depicting sockeye salmon transitioning from their ocean to freshwater phases. They go from a blueish silver into vibrant shades of red and green. At the bottom, a large, brown grizzly bear catches one of the fish in it's maw. Text across the comic reads: "Bless you. Love transforms us. No matter how long it's held in our trembling hands." End ID.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/46c1cc97176f1c119ee958924356f68b/62d50749091c7cf8-e3/s640x960/a65e22aaee7fa66c2fecea9a7c66fe5fc4420ee5.png)
That day I woke up crying
Inspired by this article, which caught in my throat for a good while.
Not a big fan of what melatonin has been doing to my dreams lately.