Let Gratitute Change your Attitude

These winter days can be so long and dark and dreary. I need my sun, my vitamin D, my Sea Bath!
I've been here in North Idaho for 12 years now, but if I close my eyes I can see, feel, smell, and taste my former residence in the Carribean....
I am floating, almost weightless on back , my legs long and tan stretch out,I still have my tevas on because the coral is sharp,alive and infection accues quickly when one is wounded by it. I can hear my own breath, muffled by light waves crashing and nothing else. The hot sun beats down on my scalp as it is the only thing not totally submerged in the warm (yet cooler than the air), salty, turquoise, clear Carribean Sea that we come to most days for a Sea Bath. The water is sticky, but still much more refreshing than the hot, humid, tropical air. This is my favorite part of any day ever. After a long morning working in one of the organic gardens, a light lunch and some housekeeping, it is too hot right now to weed, plant, water or harvest. So we walk, hitch hike, catch a ride how ever we can and head to the beach. After floating, swimming laps , and playing, I hunt the shore for conch, bright purple,yellow and orange sea fans, and other pieces of colorful dried up, washed up coral pieces for my collection in the garden, and for decorations in my shack (that has no door) . I am in bliss. Life is simple.