{"id":4163,"date":"2016-02-29T14:17:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2016-02-29T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:17:25","slug":"be-home-in-time-for-supper-st-lucia-castries-02262016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4163","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBe Home In Time For Supper\u201d \u2013 St. Lucia, Castries \u2013 [02\/26\/2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the futur<\/em>\"waiting_for_my_sailor_by_yumenonikki-d2zdb2h\"e! You can either fight it, or you can rock out to it! ~ Hairspray<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes, you simply need to get away<\/em>, away from the drama and the drills (this morning\u2019s ran nearly a full hour and a half), pressure and the tears and the constant constant<\/em> questions. You need to go somewhere where you can just be you<\/em>, whatever that is, was or may be.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t have a lot of time in St. Lucia, it\u2019s a short port day and the long drill this morning played havoc with most people\u2019s plans. I wasn\u2019t even going to have company originally, until Amras\u2019 IPM partner volunteered to stay on board instead. The beaches were all at least a fifteen minute cab ride away and besides, neither one of us really felt like a whole lot of company. Not when it seems that there have been precious few moments that we haven\u2019t been around people 24\/7.<\/p>\n

So we ended up at a beautiful outdoor restaurant no more than a five minute drive away on the other side of the bay; but it may as well have been a world away. For the first while we were the only ones there, snagging a table just as they opened; and the tables were right next to the water, almost over the water, so you could hear the waves lapping at the edges of the deck. That would have been music enough, but after a moment I realized it wasn\u2019t the only music.<\/p>\n

Okay, that\u2026is kind of funny.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is?<\/em><\/p>\n

This CD, this is Mum\u2019s birthday CD, I\u2019m certain of it.<\/em><\/p>\n

The very first disc we ever got for our CD player, when such things as CD players were still a big new thing; was a recording of Frank Sinatra \u201cThe Capitol Years\u201d, which I listened to so many times growing up that I know the order of it almost by heart. I haven\u2019t heard that CD in years, and somehow hearing it there, in that context, was just\u2026there was something that felt very right about it.<\/p>\n

I am very seldom blessed with \u2018Avanti\u2019 moments. Moments where you realize that it really doesn\u2019t matter what happens tomorrow, or the next day, or in the next twenty years, you can spend your life worrying about what might<\/em> happen, or you can enjoy what is<\/em> happening. I used to have those moments all the time, I\u2019m working very hard to get back to the kind of girl who embraces those kinds of moments \u2013 but today was the first time in a long time I actually had one.<\/p>\n

Life is not always easy; but then again it\u2019s not always impossibly hard either, if you look at a mountain in the right light, sometimes you realize that it really is just a molehill with a shadow no bigger than what you give it.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I make my brain work to hard, and it occurs to me that I really do have to stop letting that happen, and learn to enjoy the days when I can sit by the water, and indulge in a perfectly cooked meal with good company, a world away from the place I am lucky enough to call home\u2026<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I really do have to remind myself to let the work stay at work\u2026it\u2019s the rest of the world that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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