This is the Happily Ever After...

Every good story has a hero or heroine who struggles through something difficult before reaching what matters — something meaningful, significant, purposeful.

Oceans of Mine contains the products of years of work and several blogs; every post formed from my blood, sweat, and tears as I continued to create despite the pain and confusion of having a minuscule audience.

I tried for years to keep my creative work separate and organized, convinced that poetry belonged in one place and essays in another, with photography or inspiration somewhere else entirely.

But art doesn't work that way. Life doesn't work that way.

This is the ocean of my work, vast and raw, a collection of all my years — with poetry and prose, photography and found inspiration, moments of beauty and words that refuse to stay contained. It's the amalgamation of everything I've created, lived, and discovered — a virtual ocean of me.

It's through these years that I learned: the happily ever after isn't an ending.

It's creating, feeling, adding one more drop to my vast, unyielding sea.

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For, I am as deep as the ocean, as vast as the sea
And I am grateful, to my depths, for all that you may read

— Meri