Amusing…no one commented on this quote from
the last post. And it was my favorite. I’m posting it again
because it’s a good reminder to me–the girl who knows she’s right and
would love to prove it. “A word well spoken…”
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right
thing in the right place
but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.
-Lady Dorothy Nevill
(1825-1913), British author
I stood on the jetty this morning and looked at the ocean. It was
so wild and excited. It wanted to swallow me. I just know
it did. It called for me to come and play…oh, how I wanted
to. When I said no, it roared up and covered me. Odd having
only the front of you wet and not the back. But convenient when
you have to sit in the car later. Fortunately I had left my shoes
on a dry rock. Unfortunately, my phone was in my pocket. I also went out and stood on one of the monuments
on the seawall. It’s the highest part you can walk on. The
wind was incredible.
I like seeing the tourists coming out to play before the sun gets too
hot. I find myself smiling kindly at them and wonder if I look
like I’m patting them on the head. “You nice little people coming
to our beach for vacation.” It’s not like I actually live there,
but…I half grew up there, anyway.
Last night the waves were great for surfing. I wasn’t sure they
would be until we actually got in them. (That was exhuasting
after painting the house all day.) Today the surf looked a little
crazy. I’m not sure I would have wanted to go out there just to
take a beating.
Oh, and we saw dophins–two of them–right out there between the
jettys! So cool. Someone yelled that they saw a fin, which
of course makes everyone think “shark.” But my brother said, no,
it was curving up and jumping a little. We’ve seen them before,
further down the island where it’s quieter. One summer when we
rented a jet ski, they came to play with us. I didn’t happen to
be out on the water at that point so I didn’t get very close.
This time I saw one coming toward us, not forty feet away. We’d
seen a ton of fish just a minute before and I guess they were following
the school. Funny how, when you see a large creature swim your
direction, you tell yourself, “It wouldn’t come this close,” but you
find yourself looking into the water all around you and expecting a
huge face coming at you in the next wave.
PennyDaisy 
That is a very good quote and an excellent reminder to us all. 🙂
Just a few more months and I’ll be stationed somewhere along the coast! I can’t wait. =)
I didn’t comment because it wasn’t original. If I had something to say on it, I would have said it to the author. 😛
I’m trying very very hard to stay up until nine. It’s . . .hard.
And while you all were enjoying yourselves at the beach (playing around in the waves, riding on dolphins, etc.), I was working hard at home. Computer gaming and all that jazz. Getting beat by monsters, losing my little followers one by one, getting confused and lost and frustrated. There are hardly words to describe how hard I worked. Slacker!
it sounds like fun at the beach. i love wind. and waves and currents. and being outside. i think i could’ve happily stayed another couple of days at seadrift, hanging out with everyone and sleeping in the wind on that lovely comfortable lawn chair.
the quotation: excellent. by the way, i don’t know if i know you… Sara