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Today was a big day, a day of big changes, and while all change is scary, this one feels like a door has opened instead of closed. I like that feeling. It’s scary and exciting. I am hopeful.
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you’ve read only once can’t.” — Gail Carson Levine
Daily gratitudes:
Peaceful partings
Journeys
New beginnings
My Kindle
Public transportation on days when the roads are bad
Carib Beer is not available in my neck of the woods, so I have to indulge my fondness for it when I’m in the islands. As the leaves are turning, and the winds are blowing cool, and MKL even reported a dash of the “s” word tonight, I’m thinking about golden days on a warm beach.
Cow Wreck Beach, Anegada, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “I move in the university of the waves.” – Pablo Neruda
Daily gratitudes:
Flying flocks of pigeons
An empty I-25
Raspberries
Jim Lehrer
Admiring other women’s shoes while being glad I don’t have to walk in them (literally)
Sometimes, I get homesick for one of my other homes. Let’s hope the islands can play keep away successfully with the storms approaching later this week.
Cow Wreck Beach, Anegada, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “You can’t know who you really are until you’ve tasted all the things life has to offer…otherwise you’ll just be standing there with an empty plate and no stories to tell.” – Amber Mosby
Daily gratitudes:
Pam
That my niece is home
My gumbo
Photographs that look primordial
Abilene boots
Island churches have a little simple magic all their own. While I didn’t get to see this church is operation, I did hear the congregation of another church on Anguilla sing their hearts out through the open windows overlooking the turquoise sea on a Sunday morning.
Island Harbour, Anguilla.
Quote of the day: “In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix must first burn.” – Octavia E. Butler
Daily gratitudes:
MKL
A much more reasonable plumbing repair quote
Loco Moco from the 20th Street Cafe
Opera tonight
That Kelsea called me when she heard “our song” on the radio today
This storm passed over Jost van Dyke, sharing its brief blustery winds with those of us on Tortola.
Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – GK Chesterton
Daily gratitudes:
The little old man on the street rocking out along with Kelsea and me to the music from the truck radio downtown last weekend
Not setting the house on fire when I cooked pork chops
How the curtains move in the breeze from the storm that never came
The curiously strange dogs at the small farm down the road
Paint horses
Getting to see MKL today
Photo title: Ass Stand-off
Pomato Point, Anegada, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.” – Alex Tan
Daily gratitudes:
Kelsea
Cashmere
How traffic lights remind me of Christmas
Counting the full moons until I am back on an island
Chuck Testa’s commercial
Photo title: From the Hilltop
White Bay, Jost van Dyke, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” – Flora Whittemore
Daily gratitudes:
That I am willing to do hard emotional work that I need to do to move forward
Laughter
Stuffed clams
The peach roses I bought myself yesterday
Contemplating a date to the opera
Photo title: Heart’s Home
Cow Wreck Beach, Anegada, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
Photo Title: Everybody Needs One
Jost van Dyke, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.” – George Eliot
Photo title: White Bay at Dusk
White Bay, Jost van Dyke, British Virgin Islands.
Quote of the day: “I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.” – Thomas Jefferson
