07 Jul Shello
Sitting in traffic today, the radio DJ made me smile to hear that “escaping to the beach” ranked as one of the top five most common shared fantasies. (second to winning the lottery)
We should all be so lucky to have the time and means to escape to the shore. Or for that matter, wherever your favorite vacation spot is located, to rest and rejuvenate!
I rescued a cocktail napkin musing that my sister wrote last summer after a day we spent together, with our girls, on a Cape Cod bayside beach. A quick jot, throw-away poem to her was gold to me. Beach-find shells can be like that too.
A chipped knobbed whelk may be tossed aside, whereas an un-assuming, sweet slipper shell could catch your eye. It just so happens, such was the case of how my engagement ring was presented so many years ago. Happy summer to all of you hard-working family caregivers! So often memories are our best escape and I’m delighted to share a beautiful beach reverie with you…
sun splashed waves
washing closer to
toes dug deep
in the sand
dragging chairs
hermit crabs digging
plum juice dripping
down chins smeared
white with sun block
floating
on boogie boards
watching
baby eels swimming
azure blue sky
umbrellas
our day
~ Claudia Bauman, July 2016