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 Posted: Thu 3:06, 22 Aug 2013 Post subject: A mother is reminded how fast time passes |
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A mother is reminded how fast time passes
We're sitting in our car,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], my husband and I, parked near the beach,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], watching the sun slide below the wall of granite-gray clouds rising up from the horizon, out where the ocean ends. It's a beautiful evening. Here at sunset the shore is awash with muted pinks,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], pale yellows and opalescent grays. Drained of daytime color,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this seaside world of breaking waves and wet sand shimmers like the inside of an oyster shell.
It's chillier now than when we headed out to dinner earlier this evening. We didn't think then to bring along jackets or sweaters. So instead of walking off our desserts along this favorite stretch of beach,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we decide to take in the scenery tonight from the comfort of two bucket seats, to hear the call of gulls through the car's open sunroof.
Nudging my husband's arm,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I nod toward the young family ambling into view a few yards from the water's edge: mom,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a dad,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a little girl about 5, and a boy who looks age 3.
The dad,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], jacket collar turned up, stops to peer out at a big ship dredging sand about a half-mile offshore. The mom's gaze wanders from the setting sun to the sea gulls overhead to the floppy cloth bag she's setting down in the sand.
From the bottom of this bag,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the boy pulls out a plastic shovel and promptly sets to work: digging, scooping and patting. His sister,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], all knees and elbows and Buster Brown bangs, sees this as her cue to perform for any beachcombers who care to watch what looks like the "Dance of the Purple Leggings."
The boy's intense focus and the girl's dramatic flair remind me of our two kids some 17 years ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Today our daughter, a recent college grad,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], works at a nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay area. Our son,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a specialist in the ,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sends e-mails from a base in Germany where he is stationed now after 15 months in Iraq.
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