Sunrise at Bay St. Louis
The Slice of Life Challenge is just that…a challenge. We must pay attention every day to our lives. We have to listen and think. We have to compose in our heads. We even dream about what we will write next. I use the proverbial we here because I’m sure all of the Slicers are experiencing this. Today is Day 9, and I was running low on the muse. I have been keeping up a day ahead, but yesterday was Friday, which translates to “I’m fried day.” I had just enough energy to take on the commenting challenge, but I wasn’t up to writing.
This morning early I texted a friend to check in. We haven’t been able to work out a get together in a while. She was, low and behold, on the beach. She sent me the picture above. She also sent me a recording of the sounds she heard, the swishing of waves and the calls of the gulls. Here is our conversation. Walking together, alone.
I’m on the beach
walking with the laughing gulls
calls and caws.Tell them hello in gull speak.
Thanks for lighting up my cell this morning.
Missing my friend!
Missing you, yet happy to be in touch again.
What beauty you walk in. I will hold
this gift for those days when
I need a calm friend.Sweet.
I walked outside to the sounds of mockingbirds, woodpeckers, and robins. This is my scenery, our grandmother oak standing tall and proud over the bayou. Not bad for a quiet Saturday morning.
Grandmother oak on Bayou Teche
Slice of Life Challenge Day 9
Reflections on the Teche 