Denial

We leave the beach in a week.

I guess it's time to start working on that vision for life in New Mexico. As good as it's feels to walk on this beach every day, it turns out we don't really live here.

As with so many things, we don't get to hang on or stake a claim, we just try to enjoy the moments and then keep on passing through. This time has been good for me.

Someone pointed out to me the other day that there is plenty of beach where we are going in New Mexico (we'll be right next to White Sands National Monument where there are unexplainably huge dunes of "sugar sand"). Unfortunately, there's just not any water...

Somehow I don't think that's the last time I'm going to hear that joke.