Author: clfuu

Beach weather isn’t just summer, or when the sun is shining. Beach weather is whatever weather you have when you’re at the beach.

What do you like to do “out of season”?

“We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.”
― Frederick Buechner

Who occupies your room called Remember?

There is nothing shy about the color magenta. It is a sit up and take notice color, a stand out in the crowd color, a color that boldly declares its place on the spectrum and just assumes that you’re going to like it.

How do you let yourself stand out?

What could be more inviting than a rocking chair on a front porch? It is the embodiment of an invitation to sit and relax, to chat, to look for neighbors coming by and to simply watch the world as it passes.

What is your favorite way to relax and invite the world to stop by?

It takes unimaginable power to hurl a rocket ship off of the earth and past the pull of its gravity. It can take a similar amount of power to pull yourself away from old habits and toward a new, changed atmosphere.

What have you managed to pull yourself away from, and what did you find when you escaped its gravity?