You won’t get today back

I am enclosing two photos from my holiday in Dalmatia. The sea was very warm and crystal clear, so I could swim for hours every day. The iced coffee was delicious! It was nice to sit in the shade of the trees to avoid the sun when it was strongest.

I am still reading a great book (I will tell you about it in the next post). There was a quote: "You won't get today back". This thought kept me busy for a few days .... so I made sure I made the most of all my todays while I was at the seaside.

There were some small moments of sadness when I saw a family with teenage children enjoying their summer, just like I hoped once my summer holidays would be.

Then I remembered the line from the book and decided that I was not going to waste another day on sadness. So I concentrated on all the good things in my life.

The sea

 

 

 

"I am for ever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam.
The high tide will erase my foot-prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam.
But the sea and the shore will remain
For ever."

Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran

 

We returned after 8 years to our beloved Dalmatian island. Our favourite beach with perfect little stones and crystal clear sea is still as beautiful as we remembered. 

It is a pure luxury - having time for swimming and reading. I like the poem that I have just read so I am sharing it with you.

Life

 

As every year, I published a Christmas wish last year:

http://thenext15000days.blogspot.com/2022/12/my-christmas-wish.html

I didn't get an email last December. But I got one a few weeks ago and I was so happy.

A young woman who is accepting her childless life finds comfort in reading my old posts. She wrote that she wants to see in my posts that I am OK. Because if I am OK, she will be too.

Am I OK?

I think I am! I try to be offline as much as I can and out in nature as much as I can. I attach two photos from the Julian Alps. A dear friend of mine (a mother of two) gave me a voucher for a day in the Julian Alps at the lake and the river & a voucher for a delicious ice cream as a birthday present. I spent a perfect day with her!

There are moments when I feel the shadow of sadness. Like when I came across the news of a famous model who became a mother at the age of 52. All the world's media quoted her sentence: "It's never too late to become a mother."    Really?

But most of the time I feel very comfortable in my skin.  It is also all the heartache and sadness that has made me the person I am today. I am kind and gentle. And I know the value of life, how priceless it is. So I try to make the most of mine.