beach living

"Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: 

simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; 

each cycle of a relationship is valid. 

And my shells? I can sweep them all into my pocket. 

They are only there to remind me that the sea recedes and returns eternally." 

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

 

{not ours... but so typical Maine... the fisherman leaving his bucket and coffee behind to stand in the sea, casting his line...}