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You are here: Home / Uncategorized / day 2 in the beach house

day 2 in the beach house

March 16, 2011 by Nancy

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The sun rises in the Carribean in about a minute and the room I am in fills with light as though a switch has been turned on. It is a different way to wake up  this way after a long winter with an alarm clock and a very dark room. Please remember we all fall asleep with the windows and doors wide open and the salty wind whistling through. Sleeping this way is the best.

I go for a run. More on how much I don’t like running later. I am trying to love it and have it love me – the way a mother is with a difficult child. I see the ocean all along the side of me and all of the world is quiet except for its angry roar. There are  low crumbling stone walls with bouganvallia climbing all over them. 
I get back to our beach house and no one is up. I am sitting by our pool and I am trying to find the best way to use this perfect dose of time. It is a challenge to make sure we remember the very finest moments of life. And use them up. A man with rasta hair piled high and stuffed into a hat -as tall as the cat in a hat’s- surprises me with a “morning, doll. I have lobster” No one greets me in North Toronto this way. I think it might be love. Why do all men not come bearing lobster ?
The two beautiful women arrive by 9 to make us our breakfast- Johnnie Cakes, fried eggs, an embarrassment of fresh fruit, freshly squeezed orange juice. Oh my. I am on holiday.
 When I am on holiday I am baffled by how much time is left over when we don’t cook or work. 
I like my  life and find it hard to wander away from it. But when I do, it is a gift because I return to it looking at everything from a completely different perspective. 
The three women in the house have a very serious meeting. It is about eating. There are meals to be planned. We can have whatever we want. Just name it. 
If I don’t return you know where I am.
 

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Comments

  1. bonniesmith says

    March 17, 2011 at 11:03 pm

    Dream come true no doubt, I wish I could join you 🙂 This is a amazing experience, enjoy it to the fullest 🙂
    Bonnie Smith
    COO/Director FXP
    http://www.forexpulse.com

  2. Tracey says

    March 17, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    Oh mah gawd, woman… you’re living my wet dream… enjoy every freaking minute of it!! Lobster for breakfast, indeed!

  3. Sara says

    March 17, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    Can I come with you next time…my god it sounds like heaven!

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