Where waves speak to birds

Water, air, life
Cocoa Beach, FL
December 2019
This photo originally shared on Instagram

It's 7:08 a.m. on this final morning of 2019. A lonely bird swoops low over the surf, tracking a single wave as the swell in the water below rolls silently toward its inevitable end in the sand.

How many times has this scene played out here before? How many birds have swooped low here? How many waves have crashed ashore? How many souls have stood here in the sand and wondered about it all?

As is often the case in places like this, the questions outnumber the answers. Which, as my bare feet sink deeper into the still-cool sand, I realize is entirely the point. Because we don't come here to get answers. Or to fill columns and rows with definitive facts and figures.

Rather, we're here to break the spreadsheet entirely. To close our eyes, breathe in the windy, salty air, and listen for sounds that are more felt than heard. To simply absorb.

It was true last December, and it'll be true whenever we get back to this place, where rockets leave the planet, where birds master the skies no matter who may or may not be watching from shore.

Until then, we have other beaches closer to home. The water may be fresh, and the sand may be too cold to walk barefoot. But they're calling me still.

I think an adventure awaits. I wonder what we'll see when we get there.

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