If you wanna tie anchor to it and drop it right into the ocean, that's no problem, because plant fibers can stand up for months, even years, in direct contact with salt water.

Tim had been doing his typical nine-year-old’s dawdling, stopping occasionally to tie his sneaker strings or look in the ditch water for tadpoles or throw rocks at the river that ran below the road.

Yet trying to hold on to something which is forever changing is like trying to capture the wind inside a box or tie up water in a brown paper package.