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I Sight

I got a mild prescription for eye glasses about six years ago. They were supposed to help with reading and night driving. Sometimes I would use them when I spent a long time looking at a computer screen.

Because they only seemed to slightly enhance my vision, I never took to using them with much frequency. Over the course of the last year or two they’ve been left in a box, untouched.

Lately, my eyes have been stuck in boxes, moving between a multitude of spreadsheet cells for hours at a time. I dug into that abandoned box and dusted off my handy glasses, thinking I’d be doing my eyes a favor.

Funny thing is, nothing was clear when I put them on. Everything was actually more blurred.

Curious metaphor.

Seems my sight has changed.

 

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Tea Bag Wisdom

It was three years ago that I took a walk down the beach and met the man who is now my husband.

To honor the occasion it seemed a thank you was in order. So I wandered down to that same sandy place to offer up my gratitude for unexpected gifts. What I found the moment I got to the tide line was a classic specimen of the rare and beautiful Sunrise Shell.

A few earl-rising shell hounds were already there in the distance, combing the beach in search of their own Sunrise treasure. This one was right at my toes.

Sometimes when you’re not looking, the most beautiful things can just come right up upon you. Like precious sea gems in sunrise hues. Or the love of your life, bare-chested and smiling.

And sometimes sage reminders can be delivered a’la tea bags. Like the pith directive that steeped and steamed when I got back home, basking in my morning’s beach discovery and reflecting on the love that had come my way.

I’m so prone to ‘do.’ But life’s bestowed some of its most precious riches when I simply ‘let.’

 

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