You know how when you walk along the beach at sunset or sunrise, the line of the sunlight seems to follow you wherever you go.  The same with the light of the full moon.  If there was a line of people all holding hands 20 miles long along the beach and all all looking out at the sun, the line of the sunlight would seem to each one that it is directly across from them.  Is that just an optical illusion, or does the Light really follow us everywhere we go?

I went to the beach just after sunrise yesterday.  I went straight across Hwy 192 until I hit the ocean, then turned right and parked halfway down the block at the boardwalk.  I put an hour’s worth of dimes in the meter and walked 20 paces to the steps that go down to the beach.  The tide was just beginning to come in – low tide – so there was lots more beach than usual.  It was maybe 100 feet from the boardwalk to the shore line.  I love that about Florida.  Some places in California, you walk for a mile up and down sandy cliffs, then the water is freezing anyway and the wind is like storm force.  Nothing like the Florida beaches.  And white sand!  Growing up boating around Florida, the Keys and the Bahamas, I thought all beaches were fine white sand.  Some California beaches had very gray sand almost like dirt, miles of it.

There were only 3 other people on the entire beach when I got there about 7:30am.  It always cracks me up that at sunrise and sunset, the Indialantic beaches are deserted as far as the eye can see.  The tide was coming in fast, and kept splashing up on my jeans.  I know how I am, so I wore a swimsuit under my denim capris and left my shoes in the car. As well as my phone, camera, digital recorder and notepad.  I love getting wet when I plan for it.

Since it’s Florida, I have the usual supplies always in my car; insect repellent, sunscreen, swimsuit, swim shoes, towels, hats, beach chair, bottles of water, big stick-in-the-sand beach umbrella, hand drums.  I just never knew when I’ll be out and about and want to run to the beach and not have to run home first for my gear.  Being a true Floridian, I can change into a swimsuit on a bicycle.  Well, almost.

I had my hair rolled up in a donut so I couldn’t fit my sun hat on.  I had to quickly take it down and smack the hat on real fast before the hair starting escaping and going wild in the beach mist.  I’ve found the easiest way to keep long hair under control is to take a sock that is the color of the underneath back of my hair, cut the toe off, roll the sock up into a donut, then stick my hair thru it like a ponytail.  Then roll the ends of my hair onto the donut so it makes a nice bun.  It keeps it out of my my eyes when I’m working, looks kinda elegant if I have to run out, and when I finally take my hair down from it, it is all big and wavy like fairy princess hair.  Sometimes I can hide in plain sight of friends if it’s the first time they’ve seen me with my hair up, especially with glasses on.  I like being a chameleon.

We’ve got lots of chameleons here, which are really green anoles.  I didn’t see any at the beach but I saw plenty of little sand crabs.  They come out of their little holes here and there all along the sand.  They have little fights with each other.  It’s very fun to watch.  Had I thought about it, I would have taken a little movie of them.

Soon enough, the sun was getting high in the sky and hotter = time to go.  So, is it just an optical illusion, or does the Light really follow each and every one of us everywhere we go?

Is there really something that goes before us and lights our way?

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