Then another porpoise broke the water and
rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise
neared. The visitation was something so rare and
perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—
and then as quickly as they had come, the
porpoises moved away from us…Each of us
would remember that all during our lives. It was
the purest moment of freedom and headlong
exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless
covenant was set, and I would go back in my
imagination, and return to where happiness
seemed so easy to touch.