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Morning at the Beach

2/17/2015

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“Good Morning!” my friend sang out when I answered my cell phone. “Want to have a long distance cup of coffee?”

“Sure,”  I say.

“Ooooh!  Good!  I’m sitting here in a lawn chair on the sandy beach.  The Gulf air is so warm,” she beamed.  “People all around me are playing and swimming.  I’m wearing a sweatshirt, though, because I’m a little chilly.”

Hmm.  Nice.

“What a coincidence,” I say, without a hint of sarcasm.  “We are also at the beach.”  

We chit chat for a just a few minutes.

“I love you.”  
“I love you, too.”  

Then my friend returns to the sunshine and her cup of plain, weak black coffee, just how she likes it.  I turn back to our frozen beach, longing for the thick, caffeine-jacked coffee awaiting me at home.

Here at our beach, it’s minus 2 degrees with a strong north wind, which cuts through my jacket like a knife and makes my ears pulse.  My fingers hurt and my toes are numb, but someone has plowed a rink, and my five year old is learning how to ice skate…  And she is smiling.  Her too-big boots do a shuffle-shuffle-glide across the frozen lake. Powdery snow blusters away on the wind with every step.  Some years the ice is bumpy and pock-marked, but this year it is smooth as glass, reflecting the morning sun like a three-mile diamond. 

And I am rich.  

Not because I possess this three mile diamond.  
Not because someone is on a balmy vacation, and I am not.  
But because we are here, skating across the public beach on a winter morning, freezing our extremities off.  And we are together. 

Because we can say “I love you” and mean it.  

“Hey, Small One!”  I yell over the icy blasting wind.  “Want some hot chocolate?”  

I hold her hand as we make our way to shore.  

“I love you, Mom.”
“I love you, too.”

And I am rich, indeed.




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