Ferry

Lake Michigan--Currently aboard the SS Badger, crossing Lake MI from Ludington, MI, to Manitowoc, WI.  Apart from yesterday's kayaking, it's my first time on a Great Lake.  They look like an ocean, feel like an ocean but, you know, aren't.  The ocean (I'm going to continue to think of this as the ocean, and to expedite thinking and writing will continue to call it the same) seems to me a terrific spot to write--music, a journal, stories, even the vaguest sketchings, to simply record.  It is, in a way, everything at once.  It figures in everything, fuses the widest disparities.  You perceive distance and scale in disproportionate and sometimes frightening ways.