“The sea is as smooth as glass. Let’s take off our shoes and stockings, and paddle” Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan
The two stretched out on the sandy beach, tired from clambering across the rocky shore. Done with wading through water waist deep, done with searching through wave-washed stones . The heat beat up from the 100 degree sand. “It’s too hot and too bright to read,” she said. “It’s too hot to walk anymore,” he said. The two sat in companionable silence, appreciating every small whiff of breeze coming off of the water. “What can we do?” she said. “We never relax,” he said. “We’re always doing something.” “It’s true,” she said. “Even when we think we’re relaxing, we’re not. We pop up from watching TV to do ironing or dishes. We never sit still. We’re too busy seizing life, afraid to miss something and grow old.” “Why don’t we just relax? ” he said. “We hardly ever do.”
And so the two sat stretched out upon the sultry beach. They watched the distant storm clouds gather. They watched birds glide overhead. They savored the increasing wisps of breezes. And they relaxed.
© Huffygirl 2012
(Inspired by the works of Winsomebella Thanks Bella for your beautiful words and photos!)
Really nIce Huffy Girl. Could have been me and Ethan saying the very same thing…
Thanks Suzanne. So you and Ethan are not relaxers either, I take it?
Relaxing is the best! Very nice!
Thanks. If this hot weather keeps up all summer, I predict we’ll get better at relaxing than we are now.
Lovely! And are the two – you?
Thanks. Unfortunately, we are indeed the two. We have a hard time just relaxing – but were glad we did that day.
Lovely pictures, HG. It’s hard to slow down and just be in the moment, isn’t it. You would think that relaxing would be the easiest thing in the world.
Thanks Susan. I think it might be our age – we’re trying to cram as much into life as we can before we have to start going around with walkers and canes. Life has a way of making you relax in later years whether you want to or not!
Now that I’m retired and my husband isn’t, I hope he doesn’t think I’m too relaxed.
Probably not possible Susan 🙂