Mending the Nets: Postcards from Yesteryear.
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 - Indian River, Titusville FL, near Max Brewer Causeway.
Mending fishing nets, Indian River, Tituville.
Torn nets don't catch many fish. In order to survive, we must tend to that which sustains us, even when we'd rather be relaxing. These fishermen didn't get the luxury of resting after the day's haul. They had to mend the nets.
If we're wise, we invest time and effort into these tedious, but necessary, tasks. Hope is bound up in a fisherman's nets: With each knot that he ties, he is closer to catching his dreams.
But, hopes fail. The heedlessly spun thread of the Fates must, in time, ravel and break.
The cords that ensnare sustenance can entangle those whom they are intended to sustain.
Samuel R. Delany's short story, Dog In A Fisherman's Net, elaborates: A few moments of thrashing and confusion were enough to rend a man's livelihood and to rive him from all that he loved.
Like the fisherman's net, when something so necessary to survival is ripped apart, we might react with anger and be overcome by desolation. Blind with sorrow and rage, we can be so intent on what we're losing that we neglect what we must save.
Nets can be mended.
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