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July 23, 2025

The REAL footprints in the sand

Whether you're actually a secularist or not, you may, like me, be tired of the old "footprints in the sand" saying. I'd call it a poem, but to use the word "poem" for such writing does violence to the word "poem."

So, about two months ago, hiking a freshwater beach area at my nearby national wildlife refuge, when I stumbled upon a series of shoreline footprints due to a great blue heron, I knew what I had to do.

And, that is what you see below.


(It definitely embiggens when you click.)

This is not quite William Henley's "Invictus," with which I don't totally agree. (And, to the degree Invictus is a kind of lodestar for Gnu Atheists, that's part of why I disagree with them.)

That said, this is a good place for me to quote the self-invented secular Shahada:

"There is no god and I am his prophet."

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