Everything interesting is beneath the surface, both for oceans as well as people. The act of looking within is a descent to the bottom, in order to feel the forces that silently guide our lives.

I grew up with the San Andreas Faultline under my feet and still vividly remember the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake like it was yesterday: God served divorce papers to irreconcilable tectonic partners.

When I meet new people and they discover that I am from California, often they assume that I know how to ride a surfboard, which invariably makes me smile. I never learned. I simply had no idea that later in life I would be painting a lot of waves.