The Lie of the Land

Living by the coast and living with degenerative deafblindness forces a disembodying relationship between self and sea. At first there is displacement where geography generally and the coastline specifically become uncertain and unreliable. Being deafblind is a complicated state of unpredictable people, places, and things. It is ontologically insecure. The land lies. Adjusting to these losses takes time and requires a re-placement of geography via the conduit of touch and helpful others. There are many losses, but the new normal tastes of salt and feels of the messages of touch and of sand under the feet with water eddying around. The land lies differently now.