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| Traces... Port Stanley, ON September 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
On a crowded beach under some of the last rays of summer, countless footsteps serve quiet witness to time well spent.
These traces won’t be here long, as soon enough others may overwalk the shifting sands. Then autumn’s winds, winter’s snows, and spring’s rains.
If it’s true that we all leave traces of having been here, it is just as true that those traces are far from permanent. Shifting sands may seem particularly ephemeral, but even granite monuments to our having been here will eventually succumb to the forces of time.
And even while they survive, who will remember the stories they tell?
Still, we do what we can to leave the right kinds of stories behind. Because even in the wisps of blown sand there are impressions of kindness just waiting for the future to gently grab hold of. Because footsteps persist long after they cease to be visible.
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