Caregiving is about control. Well, really about trying to control what is uncontrollable. Getting up every day and running repeatedly into that proverbial brick wall.
Yesterday I escaped on a pilgrimage to the Jersey Shore Stone Harbor
Yet there is incredible ‘restoring’ in this visceral, physical contact with the surf, at the risk of hyperbole, a synergetic experience.
Maybe it has something to do with a shared ethos or simply a refreshing though necessary reminder that some power greater than any caregiver is always in control.
Philosophy aside and more than surf and seagulls the Jersey Shore
Somewhere in those grains of sand and time is my own childhood.
While the Jersey Shore certainly can refresh and perhaps even teach, above all it embraces.
Caregivingly Yours, Patrick Leer
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looks like a great place to spend the day with some awesoming looking people. glad you took the time to do something for yourself, Patrick, and get some away time from the demands of care giving
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Patrick,
ReplyDeleteI always found the shore to have restorative capabilities. I'm only an hour away from the South Jersey beaches (so-o-o not like the TV show) and I spent my childhood summers there as well (a bit north of SH in Ocean City.) Glad you had a good time and feel renewed.
Peace,
Muff
Betty and 'Muff', thanks yes playing hookey for a day has its merits.:) And Muff, actually my own Jersey Shore childhood was far more Ocean City and Wildwood.
ReplyDeleteFrom farther north on the Shore (Asbury Park) I am so glad you had such a good time!!
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