I decided that I really needed to keep my routine for getting up and going for a walk in the morning. You know how easy it is to lose a good habit!! Even if being on holiday is a good excuse for not getting up at 6am, you can be sure that come home time I wouldn't be able to get back to it!
So, this morning I got up, grabbed Mam's umbrella at the front door, and headed for the harbour!
I'm sure I've said before how much I love routine. And, of course, we all love a bit of variety, especially on holidays! Well, today I had the best of both worlds...lots of familiar sounds, but different!!!
Seagulls screeching instead of magpies. Sitting in the sitootrie listening to the rain, only Scottish rain (yes, I'm quite convinced that it sounded ever so slightly different!). Cars rushing past carrying poor souls off to work, while I enjoy the morning air, but heading to Aberdeen, not Raheen!
Then there was the one sound I don't get at home in Limerick...the one sound I miss most in all the world...the swish swish of the waves rolling in over the beach. It is such a soothing, peaceful sound. The nearest I can get to that one is the sound of my own breathing...rhythmic, gentle, constant.
So, today I am grateful for the familiar....always the same, even when it's different!
Gratefully yours.
xx
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