Didn't Mary Oliver once say the best sermon she ever heard was the sun? I choose the arctic baluga for my preacher till the world ends. I met this marine miracle at the aquarium in Atlanta. This watery cathedral shouts majesty majesty in the roving eyes of sea giants and holyholyholy in the gliding sting rays whose wingtips flick powdery sand along the ocean beds. Shells, fins, tails, flippers, suckers, stingers, whiskers, tentacles, teeth, gills, feathers, scales, bioluminescence, blowholes... all notes in a symphony beneath the waves. Did you know the whale shark's mouth is 4-feet wide but its throat is the size of a quarter? Gasp.
Did you know that Africa has penguins and that these birds sprout up to 300 feathers per square inch?
Selah.
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