love on the beach

We were walking on the beach one day and came across this on pier concert. She sat, watching people dancing. We made conversation about the salt air and missing the smell of back homes creek.

It was getting chilly, time was moving faster than the crowd and she was content there to watch this one couple dance to each song the band played while she new every word to the hillbilly rock. I made my way to the surrounding stores, returned to her and somehow thought shed be ready to move on soon. Didnt you love that nude of the gardener in the tulips? I need that for my bedroom wall. I enjoyed her fuller figure. . . she spoke without blinking. Her eyes were welling and I was confused. Was she missing something and sad? Did she want for that in her life, the way they knew how the other was going to move? Was it that she had that and felt it slipping away? She allowed the salt to trace her face for a good bit longer. You look wonderful tonight floated over the water, bouncing off the reef and returning and she was in their lives, connected. She could imagine the way he was going to make love to her when they got home. The breakfast she would make him in thanks for their day. She already knew that his hand would not leave the small of her back the entire walk to their car - bike - door.

I realized she appreciated love where she saw it. She dreamed for people in those moments and bestowed blessings through open eye meditation, surrounded by the greater whole, yet her solitude was rooted in a peace for a people in silence.

I wished for her to have recognized their emotion from her own life. Somehow I think she loves so contently that she is able to see it everywhere. It reaches out for her eye, her ear, her taste. All of her senses are aware of it when she sits in its presence, aroma or warmth. She is reconnected to her own story. And I know she loves him deeply. She has said for years, He will never on this earth, breath outside of my love for him I just take her at her word.

The melody returns over that reef over and over and she stays lost in this love on the beach. I realized, she was back on their beach! It was just a Northern California Sand.