Monday, January 06, 2020

Waiting for the light

The last day of the year dawns over the Space Coast
Cocoa Beach, FL
December 2019
Sometimes you need to find a beach before sunrise and just stand there for a bit.

Sometimes you don't need to do much more than close your eyes and feel the steady onshore wind on your face. Or smell the salt in the air.

Sometimes you'll want to wander down close to the spot where the waves break, where the sand is perfectly flat and shiny, and wait for the foamy water to spread over your feet and ankles.

Sometimes you'll need to stand there for a bit and watch the waves wash your footprints away, as if you had never been here.

Sometimes you'll have to pick seashells out of the surf not because you need to, but because you want to.

Sometimes you'll want to listen closely for the sounds of birds dancing through the turbulent air just above the waves. Or fighting with each other. Or both.

Sometimes you'll want to let your feet sink into the cool sand, for no other reason than it feels so elemental.

Sometimes you'll want to linger there longer than you probably should, because you wonder how long it'll be before you can return.

Sometimes you'll turn around one last time for one last look as you walk off the beach. Just because.

Sometimes you won't want to clean up the inevitable wisps of sand in the back of the car, because they serve as reminders of times you wish you could hold onto.

Sometimes, you just want to spend time doing things that make your heart and your soul smile just a little bit wider.

This is one of my sometimes. Whatever your sometime may be, I hope you find it, throw yourself into it, and then find some way to share it with the folks who matter.

Because a life with sometimes in it seems infinitely better than the alternative.

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