The other day while I was waiting to be picked up from school I was sitting outside waiting. The sun was warm in the late afternoon, a great change from what we have been getting lately. I love summer and I just wish the weather would make up its mind as to whether we are going to have rain or heat. I prefer heat, but yes I know we need the rain. We can’t all be happy. Anyway I’m sitting there waiting for my lift I have my head tilted up letting the sun hit my face and I closed my eyes and just sit and wait. All of the sudden I stand up and like a cartoon character that has been hit over the head I shake my head to get the cobwebs out. For a minute there I thought I could smell and taste the sea air. You know what I mean the saltiness in the air. But that can’t be right I am no way near the beach in fact my closest beach is over an hour away. So that can’t be it. I let it go thinking that it was just my mind playing tricks on me.
I sit back down and wait, the temptation got the better of me and I did it again I closed my eyes and tilted my head back and yes I did smell the sea air again, this time however the traffic that was buzzing past me on the main road wasn’t traffic at all but the sound of the ocean waves rolling in from the sea. Once again I jumped up and cleared my head; this is ridiculous I said to myself. I know that I am in need of a holiday but, this is taking it too far. I let it go. Finally my lift arrived and I told them what had just happened they looked at me like I was nuts. Yes I know I feel like I am going nuts so it wouldn’t surprise me.
The next day I had to go down the street to do a bit of grocery shopping and what is sitting on my car when I come out but a seagull. A seagull that is so out of place where I live, but now I am in my home suburb I am much more than hour away from the nearest beach so this is an odd sight to see. I get back home and I take the shopping in the car and I check the mail and there in my mail box is a postcard. Of a beach scene! It is blank nothing on it. Not even a post mark from the post office. It is like someone has walked past and just put it in my letter box or something.
So I wonder is the world the universe telling me something. Instead of wrapping Christmas presents for everyone, and baking cakes, and such. Should I be packing a toothbrush and a cossie (bathers, swim suit for some) and heading away to the beach. The mind boggles, but ohhh how nice it would be to get away.
And maybe just maybe I will try and fit it in to this busy schedule we set for ourselves at this crazy time.
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