Before sunrise, Em and I get up and walk to town for coffee and tea. Everywhere is quiet and ours. Back at the Tin Roof, (the name of the vacation rental) Sheryl and Laura are up and out front when we return. They are fresh-morning-girl-weekend-day-one-beautiful. My heart warms seeing them. The birds are late sleepers in this vacation town. I am on the patio in back now--waiting for their songs and the sun. Morning-cornflower-blue-glories surround this space and down surrounds me because it is chillicious. The girls inside the main house are telling stories and laughing big, gorgeous HA HA HA's. Laura is extra animated, true, completely, to her perfect self. Sheryl, content to be entertained and loving a good story, sits under the lamp with her latest expression of the divine that spills from her always. I also hear girly-girls talking upstairs. Jenny just "wooo-woooed!" I love right now. I love these women and everything they teach me, and every way they love me and themselves and each other. They are warm and honest and tolerant and creative and interesting and funny and happy and FABULOUSLY-FORMED-EXPRESSIONS-OF-DIVINE-BEAUTY.
No one wants to join me out here...yet....they will come with the sun. Oh! There is the Blue Jay whose song is an umbilical cord to this town's part of me. My eyes are doing that thing again - where another presence is using them - curious and enormous. You can stay. I am quite sure I don't mind. What blessings surround us...just like this down blanket, the raucous Blue Jays, and (as suspected, right along with the sun) all these morning glories:
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Love!! :D Sad I cannot make it for the girls trip this year... hopefully next fall! I have so many great memories from these fall girls trips to saugatuck! I remember that walk to the coffee shop like it was yesterday Gina! Would love for you and mom to come visit me up here... I have two great coffee shops in walking distance!
ReplyDeleteOkay. I'm on my way! Miss you Emily Ann.
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