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Snapshots from a fulfilling weekend. Cat snuggles, my nasturtium blooming, whale watching while drinking coffee and eating breakfast, beachcombing to my heart's content, and a late afternoon hike with friends and kitty.
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Beachcombing treasures. It’s the little things. Copyrights Val Moliere, Palma de Mallorca, Feb 2019
How to Go Beachcombing
Step One: Only go at low tide. You will find interesting things and terrible things washed up on the shore. Keep a careful eye on the moon and on the time. You do not want to be here when the water comes rushing back in. You do not want to be here.
Step Two: Close your eyes. Stand perfectly still. Do not move. Listen to the birds, and the waves lapping at the shore and crashing on the rocks. Listen to the wind making the trees creak. Feel the earth swaying below you. Taste the copper in your mouth. Do not stand still for long.
Step Three: Walk along the edge of the water. Watch your feet as you walk. Count the seashells that wash up with the tide. Pick up the bottle caps and plastic straws. Watch your feet as you walk. Do not let the water touch you. Do not look back. Watch your feet as you walk. Watch your feet as you walk.
Step Four: Collect seashells. Make them into a pattern that will be washed away. You may take one home, if you wish. Only one. No, not that one. Never that one.
Step Five: Pick up the longest, largest piece of kelp with the biggest bulb that you can find. Take your knife, cut the tail off and cut the fronds off the top. Cut the top off. It should look like a trumpet. Find a safe spot, well away from the water, high up on a rock. Hold onto the craggy, windswept tree as you crouch by the edge. Purse your lips and blow into your trumpet. Let the noise be carried over the sea. Don’t look down at the shore. You don’t want to see what answers your call.
Step Six: Do not ever toss rocks into the sea. They will be brought back to you. You don’t want to know by what.
Step Seven: Find a large stick. Draw a message in the wet sand. Do not turn your back to the ocean as you do. Be sure to only write kind words. Tell the sand nothing about yourself.
Step Eight: Turn over rocks, but only the right ones. Do not flinch away at what you find, no matter what. Be prepared for anything. Do not turn over a rock unless you are ready to see what’s underneath.
Step Nine: Sit on a log and watch the sun set. Count the colours in the sky. Listen to the waves and the strange singing that floats over the ocean, carried by the wind. Watch the sky grow gradually darker and darker. Watch the first stars come out.
Feel confused, because it’s still only three o’clock in the afternoon. Do not look away.
Do not look away.
Do not look away.
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