Nightly Gathering

Open Thread Post 66 - The Beach

Hello all! You may have noticed that I gave the subheading a title for the first time. Sometimes I want to refer to a past post and I have no idea which one it would be. Maybe having a named subtitle will help.

I also just type these Nightly Gathering ones directly from my phone, but if I used a continuous word document, I'd be able to search things pretty easily. Something to think about.

Today while hubby was doing something else, I went and laid/sat at the beach for a few hours. Within a few minutes of being there, the sads began because I remembered times just Mo and I had been to a beach, just the two of us. I remembered laying in Jacksonville when we left a spring beach tournament in North Carolina to check out the University of North Florida because she was thinking of trying to get recruited by them. Then there was our trip in 2020 to the Gulf Shores area to have a little fun right after she graduated from UAB. There were many beach trips during those high school years in between the above with many other people. Mo loved the beach!

So I missed her like crazy and I cried for a good ten minutes, but I just reminded myself over and over that she's happy! That's all I care about. I looked out at the ocean and saw the sun sparkling on it, straight in front of me, not off to either side, and tried to remain present, as I felt the sparkles from the overflowed Flint River a month ago represented to me.

I'm sad because of love, which was a huge blessing. Not everyone gets to have a lot of love in their life. She was a gift. Remember how important relationships are. Do people cry for months if they lose a car? A house even? I don't think so! People are what is important; our hearts tell us so naturally.

Here is a picture of the sparkling water from my spot.

Feel free to type out anything you'd like to.