The rising sun fills the room like it hasn’t done all winter and the birds remind me of summer vacation when I was young.
Growing up on the west coast it was a short flight to Hawaii and if we were lucky, we found ourselves packing our bathing suits and boogie-boards as the last days of school approached.
The nostalgia of those trips is still strong. It’s the perfect breeze and the brilliant moon-lit clouds. BBQ by pool, snorkeling in the sea. The trail giving way to a hidden beach and the ocean stretching farther than I could imagine.
I made it back last year after eight years and it was an odd overlap of re-living old memories and making them anew. But it’s still that island in the sea, further away now, but so close on mornings like these.
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