Deluge

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything. - John Muir

Drinking champagne.

Spitting blood.

One and done.

Treading a biblical, ravenous flood ...

Author's Note

“The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell.” - Thoreau