Maybe It's The Memories

Old town Monterossa, Le Cinque Terre summer 2007

Maybe it's the memories...

Barb and Athena's get-away to our favorite little spot in Monterossa...we love that village.

the change of the pace that brings us there

The sense of the vacation,

maybe the smell of the place,

the sight of the gulls, the dunes, the grasses,

but oh, it is the feel of it,

the crunch and the slide of it,

the feeling of beach sand, so different from

dirt, soil, loam. No not earthy, moist, rich

but oh so granular and gritty. Even when wet,

movable paper spreading under toes,

sliding beneath the soles, smoothing my skin,

clearing my mind, unburdening me of the rest.

Drawing me to the tactile,

the feel of the beach sand."

Beach Sand by Raymond A. Foss