Ok, well I guess I'm just livin' lately! Been doing so many things that I have been puting off (maybe tomorrow I'll fold the laundry!). We went to the beautiful, unique, fun, inspiring, fascinating, relaxing (I could go on) Indiana dunes. I recomend it to anyone within a few hours drive! The experience took me back to florida but yet kept me in indiana it was a verry unique place. Small waves kissing the sand, the largest consentration of perfect skipping rocks I have ever seen in my life and sand, soft, cool sand everywhere! A truly beautiful beach! As if that werent enough, my gaze was often swept inland to the tall grasses growing in the sand that led my eyes even farther to the mountainous dunes with a backdrop of dense forrests... as I said, truly a unique place. I am overwealmed with awe and gratitude for the day.
Somehow as perfect as the place was, I still managed to be a boob. On occasion while struggling to get Lilly and Sarah to work on getting CLOSER to Josh, I caught myself thinking" I wish I could walk closer to my husband" or "why does he get the easy kid and I get the two being difficult?". Wow! I realy hate it when I get that kind of thinking in my head cause it allways comes out as a bad attitude and I realy disslike those! So, I told Josh I needed a minute to get over myself and I sat on the sand medditating on the sounds and the breeze, the gratitude I felt and the fact that I wanted Josh to enjoy the day even more than I wanted me to enjoy the day(he rarely goes out and enjoys it). So the rest of the day was much less focused on me and self pity. I got super creative right after my meditation and made this in the sand next to Josh's deep sand cavern.
Walking along the beach I was so overwelmed with saddness at all the trash and party strings. My purse was full of recycleables, trash and sand at the end of the day and I barely picked up any of the trash. Trying to keep up with Sarah and Lilly required me to keep my hands free so when my purse was full, that was that and I felt bad that I wasn't doing more, but what could I do?
Ok well, enough of the focus has gone to me and trash, so back to fun, beauty and awesomeness! Something else that I totaly loved about this day was the deversity in culture. I was stimulated by skin of every shade and caught the musical notes of at least 3 different languages... it was wonderful and sadly something I don't get to experience often where I live...Hope you all enjoy these pics and if you read this blog, I would love a comment...
He realy enjoyed himself(Jessica dragging my purse)
Chasing sea gulls
all of thos wonderful skipping rocks...
Me trying to catch up...made for a great pic though...:)
Jessica and Sarah
hey deborah! i just noticed you had a blog by clicking your name on superforest. i've just read all your entries up til this one and am thoroughly enjoying getting to know you and reading what you are putting out here. thank you for starting this blog! you've inspired me to start one too. (hopefully i won't drag my feet too much on that project.)
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p.s. AMAZING sand art!!