“Child of the Sea”
Excerpt from “Osi and Isi: A Tale of Twin Flames”: “Isi was a child of the seaside. She would every morning skip down to the crescent-shaped beach near her house, pass her beloved, prototypical, curved-trunk palm tree, with its cluster of tightly packed coconuts, notice the perfect shadow the tree spread over the white sand, and finally occupy her “place of power,” as Carlos Castaneda might have called it. This spot lay just in front of a protective ring of rocks, in the shade of three large palms, and above the high-water line of the tide. She felt about it what Don Juan had told Carlos about his spot: that here was her reserve of power, that here every smallest rise of sand and spread of bleached coral rested under her protection. It seemed to her that here she lay at the center of the vast universe, somehow holding the control stick for its entire operation.”