I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.
Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2009) - ISBN: 9780861719983