Most of It Arrives by Sea
Look around the room.
The chair. The phone. The shirt you are wearing.
Most of it arrived by sea, in a steel box, on a ship few of us will ever see.
Shipping is the quietest part of the economy because it works. Nobody notices a container until it is late, and then everybody does.
Behind each delivery are:
- crews away for months
- ports running through the night
- tides that keep their own timetable
The sea does not make headlines when it carries on. It simply carries us.
Perhaps that is well worth a moment’s notice, once in a while.