It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so. ~Charles de Lint
It's Saint Patrick's Day, are you wearing green?
Mom and Wayne just took off for their home on the other side of the state. They arrived around 3pm yesterday so it was one short but sweet visit....always a rare and happy surprise to have the parents at our place. Especially on me birthday! This will be two years in a row that both of them have come to St. Simon's.
Last year was the big 30 -- even my brother and his wife came to the island. Rob took the day off and the whole bunch of us spent all afternoon at the beach.
My mother and father brought my brother and I up in a way that I believe wove our minds more deeply into our souls and taught us the ability to see beyond the initially observable world...things that many people were unaware of seemed obvious to us. I think that gets harder to do as you become an adult, so I'm grateful that we learned this early in life and I intend to do them same with our children when we have them.
Last year, as we were collecting our things to leave the beach, mom showed us what she'd been working on almost the entire time we were there. Were weren't allowed to look at it until then, and it will probably always be one of my most cherished birthday "gifts" :)
...when the tide came in, she jumped free of the beach and danced on the waves
