At the Beach in San Diego

Picture from here.

I love being at the beach.  Not sunbathing or anything like that.  I just enjoy the sound of the waves and the feel of the sand between my toes. 

There is something deep and mysterious about the ocean.  I don't know if it's the immense size, or the continuous energy of the pounding waves.  If a piece of the ocean, it's spirit if you will, could walk up out of the waves what would that being be like?  That's the question I've wrestled with in thinking about the Elemental characters in my stories.  Durin especially perplexes me.  How can my character embody the mysterious depth and chaotic pounding of the unseen waves that are the essence of Magic?  How would that kind of being see humans, or interact with us?  So I'm here in San Diego, enjoying the weather and the waves...  and pondering.