Article Title: Forever, Never Ending Author Name: Julie Jordan Scott Contact Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Word Count: 386 Category: Parenting, Spirituality, Personal Development Copyright Date: 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Publishing Guidelines: Thank you for publishing this article in its entirety including the resource box. When possible, please notify me of publication by sending either a website link or a copy of your ezine upon publication via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Forever - Never Stopping © 2007 Julie Jordan Scott http://www.5passions.com I could sit and watch him for hours. His focus was pure and his delight, even purer. Sam stood near the edge of the water, the place where the wetter sand met the less wet sand. He studied its ebb and flow with an intense presence, occasionally jumping up and down when he was especially happy about what he saw. I got up from my perch on the sand to be closer to him. We did a he-man impression, calling out to the vast ocean, "You want a piece of me? Huh? You want a piece of me?" Sam howled with laughter at our simple, ultra-human tactics. We knew it was a fallacy, this thinking we could really impact the force of the ocean. It was fun pretending, though. There was no reason to stop. Katherine wrote "Samuel" and "Katherine" in the sand. The ocean came along and wiped it away, erased it in one foul swoop. Katherine screamed in lament. "Stop, water, Stop!" she ordered. The water didn't really care about her order. She scribed it in the sand, a bulwark in front of the names. "Kathie. Samuel. Emma" and "Stop, Water! Stop!" She was victorious for a few moments. A persistent wave arrived and erased her words again. Sam howled with laughter. This might have been the most amusing episode in his little life ever. On the drive back to Bakersfield, he could still be heard saying "Stop! Stop! Stop!" in a variety of vocal registers. "What are you laughing at, Sam?" I asked him. "Katherine. in the waves.'Stop! Stop!' peals of laughter bubbled up again. More of what Anne Lamott calls "carbonated holiness." He did it again last night, more than twenty four hours after-the-fact. He did it again this morning, when we were eating pancakes, all four of us gathered around the kitchen table. "Stop! Stop! Stop!" Laughter, laughter, laughter. Katherine wasn't laughing. I have the feeling she will, eventually. Years from now I can see Sam, with his children, playing in the surf. I can see Katherine, holding hands with her younger nieces and nephews, writing their names in the sand, telling the ocean "Stop! Stop! Stop!" I can hear carbonated holiness bubbling up and over their round bellies. I hear the echoes of their voices forever in time, never stopping. = + = + = + = Julie Jordan Scott is a Writer, Life Coach, Poet, Speaker, Actor, Director and Mom Extraordinaire whose deepest passion is helping people - like you - discover and live with passion. Call 661.444.2735 to book your complimentary coaching session or visit http://www.5passions.com for plentiful resources to live a passion-rich life. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE USING ARTICLES POSTED ON THE GROUP: 1. Print the article in its entirety. Don't make any changes in the article . 2. Print the resource box with all articles in their entirety. 3. Send the Author a copy of the reprinted article or the URL where the articles was posted. Anything short of following these three rules is a violation of the Authors Copyright. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
