Post Reformation, yet on the cusp of the Scientific Revolution, modernity sits like a hazy island far in the distance. Full dominance of the land, of the seas, remains unrealized. Formal religion pervades life, yet, ancient beliefs, a simple reverence for the seasons, the harvest, the tides, remains buried within humanity. Journeying across the Atlantic, to where trees grow to Herculean heights, rivers flow unobstructed, and the earth has yet to yield to the plow, a religious congregation seeks to establish a colony in the new world. Congruently, in the 21st century, humankind leads a sterilized existence, science and technology have provided many a cozy, insulated life but one devoid of connection to deeper belief or the natural world. Into both scenes, step three orphan children who for hundreds of years, have resided in the gray space between emerging modern humanity and nature. By a strange shepherd named Brigu, they are placed with this Calvinist congregation traveling to the new world. Under the guises of adoption they harbor deeper and ultimately conflicting motivations. The Spring Tide is loosely structured along the lines of a diary, perhaps even a ship’s log - date to date - and moves from past to present and back again. It recounts, in parallel, the coupled destinies and self realizations of Abigail Fielding during the years 1603-1637 and the twin’s and Sagar in the early 21st century. Pervasive themes across both pathways of discovery include: the lost bonds between humanity and nature; the surface of religious beliefs relative to a deeper undercurrent of spirituality and; a search for lineage, purpose and lost history.