FINDING DAYTONA

FINDING DAYTONA "Everybody's looking for something..." Annie Lennox Maybe sweet dreams or silence and sea, maybe not. In some ways, Daytona, a beach town, is not just on the edge of a Continent, but on the verge of another existence. Eternity beckons and wanes with the waves. Visitors and locals amble and admire the sky, the surf, birds and turtles, always with a niggling sense that something else awaits. As in any vista confronted with the vastness of sea and sky - the grain of sand that is our mortality. I was introduced to Daytona as a young man, saw my grandparents and parents enjoy and prevail among the condos, trailers and armadillos, married my wife on a beach there before a storm, and then saw that sun set. If I think of a day, any day that could be, from sunrise to moon-rise, this is a day life might offer. In all its weird and wonderful bounteousness, its reality slap-down fineness, what is to be will be. James Rae - 2020