192: Cleanse and Reclaim

I pick up a shell encrusted with corals and plan to bring it home. Let it sit in the window, between the basil and the fruit basket. The inside is filled with sand, darkened from laying half buried on the beach, picked up and dropped and picked up again by curious fingers looking for pearlescent and finding only stale grey and dirty white. I bring it down to the water and squat where the afternoon's slow waves wash up between the heels of my boots. I watch it and swirl the sand out of the shell, begin to cover it, then drag the sand back into the sea.

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Written by: Katrine Hjulstad

Instagram: @katrinehjulstad

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