I am no Heraclitus but just experienced a version of this two thousand year old wisdom. Two years after my first visit, I made it to the same beach I wrote about previously a a post titled “Do not tell anyone about it”. No, I did not tell anyone about it or rather I told a few but not where it was.
Conditions were perfect. It was a sunny warm afternoon, the ocean was calm, and the quiet of solitude was deafening.
Yet something was different. Boulders, that must weighed tons, have
disappeared. Have aliens taken them? I am sure there is a more prosaic explanation. The beach is open to violent surf during winter storms. It seems even the storms could not move the huge rocks but they could sure bury them in the sand. It would take a thick layer of sand to do that, four feet at least.. Yet it does not seem the level of the beach changed so much.
On second thought, it must have been the aliens. They made the rocks sink into
the sand. Or was it gravity?
