Outside Reading I

10/21/14

The Sacred

            I decided to read the, “Old Man and the Sea”, by Ernest Hemmingway.  In this book, the Santiago, this old fisherman had not caught a fish in 84 days.  Most people would quit, but the open ocean is the old man’s sacred place.  It helps him get away from the problems he has back in his home and can focus on him and the sea.  Everyone has their own sacred place, one as powerful and moving as the other.  Without a sacred place one is lost spiritually in the world, traveling until this mere location is discovered.