How to Live at the Beach

Rating:
Summary: Not just a cute book!
Review: Although this is a darling book with charming illustrations, it is much more than that. It also contains the most wonderful and on-target thoughts about beach living.

For example: "We want to elongate the days, distill the memories, make them last. At the same time we know that the beauty is in the evanesence....Every wave comes in, then retreats. Every day promises, then turns its back and slips away. Every joy has a little tease in it, a give and take, and leaves a wake of longing."

"Simplicity is a process. It's a kind of surrender. It's a forgetting of the rules we never liked much anyway, of the values that have no real value, of the goals that never made much sense anyway."

The last page says it all: "And that slow, crooked, seeminly aimless path of our lives at the beach may just be getting us closer and closer to our best selves."

I got this as a Christmas gift and have read it over and over. It is a lovely gift for anyone you know who loves the beach. I plan to buy several copies for just this purpose.

Rating:
Summary: Not just a cute book!
Review: Although this is a darling book with charming illustrations, it is much more than that. It also contains the most wonderful and on-target thoughts about beach living.

For example: "We want to elongate the days, distill the memories, make them last. At the same time we know that the beauty is in the evanesence....Every wave comes in, then retreats. Every day promises, then turns its back and slips away. Every joy has a little tease in it, a give and take, and leaves a wake of longing."

"Simplicity is a process. It's a kind of surrender. It's a forgetting of the rules we never liked much anyway, of the values that have no real value, of the goals that never made much sense anyway."

The last page says it all: "And that slow, crooked, seeminly aimless path of our lives at the beach may just be getting us closer and closer to our best selves."

I got this as a Christmas gift and have read it over and over. It is a lovely gift for anyone you know who loves the beach. I plan to buy several copies for just this purpose.