[another day]

I’ve been very happy lately. Recently I’ve made some good changes in my life, and I’m very pleased with the outcome. This last Thursday Sam and I went down to St. Simon’s Island for the day. Being liberated, even if so briefly, of my constant schedule and feelings of unease imparted upon me a true relaxation, one that I am entirely sure I needed. It was a day of nothing. We left the previous night from Athens, intent on arriving on the island before sunrise. Despite a very odd pull-over by Glynn County police regarding the reason that we were behind someone going over the speed limit, then searching our car, finding nothing, and letting us off with a very kind warning, we made it there. We walked on the beach immediately upon arrival, reveling the sand between our bare toes and the smell of the sea coating our nostrils, and it was amazing. I played music in a gazebo while Sam danced. Seeing her dance is like watching ideas flow; she moved as though she were a liquid. The sky fogged before daylight broke, and there was no visible sunrise, so we returned to the car and somehow slept 6 hours, waking up because the car was getting hot on the inside. Then we walked through town, lay on the beach and waded in the ocean, ending with a comfortable coffee at Palm Coast Coffee, reading a book to the sunset. An indubitably perfect day.

However, in the saddest of events, my external hard drive crashed, and I’ve now lost all of my photos from before this miniature vacation. I’ve nothing left from the summer, from the years before. I hope that I can recover the data somehow, but it’s incredibly depressing to me that I have lost all of my work. My hard drive on this computer is simply too small, and it was inevitable with the amount of strain ol’ Darwin has been put through. (For clarification, Darwin was/is my external drive.)

So, onward, upward.