Ripple Effect: Waves

Ripple Effect: Waves One of my daughters learned how to surf during the Covid 19 quarantine. It created a new amazing routine where we get up early, put the surfboard in my car, and go to the beach. I sit and watch in awe. I sit and watch the waves and the dance she dances with them. Catching them, missing them, being defeated by them and riding them. I watch her and I think of the waves of intense emotions that the quarantine has been creating in me. Despair, happiness, gratitude, sadness, fear, loneliness, tenderness. Sometimes all at once, and sometimes only just moments apart.