What a big week we've had here! Along with celebrating America's continued Independence, my brother-in-law got married and Andrew returned from his trip to the East Coast - and thus begins the next leg of our journey. We're still hashing out the numerous details of how to begin such an enterprise as creating a physical chunk of mythology, so before we get too far, I thought it would be nice to introduce ourselves. And of course, since I actually have the login information to this blog, I'm going first.
My name is Drew Dillon, and I am supplying the words to this endeavor. Being a native Nebraskan, I had no concept of infinity until the first time I saw the ocean. My training comes from southern California, but my stories come from some place I haven't found a name for. I sometimes like to pretend I'm mysterious.
The inspiration for Land & Sea comes from a fight I had with the girl I was dating at the time (and later married). We weren't fighting about our relationship, but instead about the difficulties and challenges of being in any relationship, or trying to seamlessly fit two lives together. Such discussions are ridiculous and unavoidable, and as I sat fuming about it in my bunk that night, I felt like my anger was powerful and ultimately useless as waves crashing on a beach. And, since I prefer to practice a healthy distance between myself and my problems, I began imagining a boy in the ocean, trying to drown an island with his waves. Seven years that image has stuck in my mind, like a bullet overgrown with scar tissue so it can't be removed. It's great to think that little Sea will finally see the end of his tantrum in my mind.
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