Running with Lara

A beautiful day for a run with Lara along the beach after the storms. Loving the feeling of being lighter, faster and stronger.... and along the beach all the debris washed up on the beach by the storms. We rest before the run back and find ourselves 'beach-combing' the flotsam and jetsam .... I stoop and pick up a glass bottle covered in barnacles. The actions of the seas and sands have frosted the glass so that it is no longer clear, the cap is rusted but still intact. In its journey the bottle has no doubt found itself washed up on many distant and near beaches... only to be washed out again on a new tide.  I thought how this encrusted and worn bottle is like each of us who find ourselves 'washed-up' on some beach after the storms of life and how 'new tides' of life take us again to new places, new adventures, new friends........ I tuck the bottle into by backpack to find its new home where it will remind me of my continuing journey........