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How to enjoy a beach.

First, accept sand.

Inhale the salt of drying seaweed carried on the wind that whips your
hair into fantastic styles. Let the waves mesmerize you and fool your
eye into expecting motion from things that stand still. Hear the slip of
small waves against the shore. Watch others do the same.

Follow, with your eyes, the whorls of bleached driftwood branches.
Obsessively hunt for just the right pebble. Step strategically to
encourage squirting clams. Run fingertips over the inside of
a shell. Jog in the shallows. Sit in the lee of a log to get
warm. Let your mind roam. Look for whales.

Listen to the gulls, they’ll tell you what’s going on.
Watch the silent heron lift off as you come too close.
The kingfisher meanwhile, shrieks at you to get off this ground he considers his, as he flies away to take possession of another spot.

Dig clams, pick mussels. Just enough for an appetizer. This keeps the beach inside you for a whole day. Two days if you keep your clams in cool water and give them cornmeal to eat.

Last, accept sand.

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The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

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