“The sand is alive!”

I’m speaking of every grain of sand on the beach, bar none, though it takes a macro imagination to envision the micro nature of the life teaming on every granule.

Beach sands, both wet and dry, are like planets abuzz with microscopic life, even when being lain upon by beachgoers.

Each sand grain, especially those near the water, host what has been called “a thriving invisible universe of microscopic and tiny organisms,” collectively called micropsammon.

Per the National Academy of Medicine, “Micropsammon refers to the microscopic community of viruses, bacteria, fungi,…