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A Simple Reminder
Posted: March 19, 2011 in For the love of the sportTags: childhood like memory, fun, health, in the moment, sports, surfing, waves
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The Daily Miracle
Posted: March 18, 2011 in Lifestyle, wavesTags: Beach, Community, Destruction, Environment, exercise, Gratitude, Happiness, Japan, Jersey Shore, love, New Jersey, surfing, waves
We had some good waves last weekend in New Jersey. The March winds blew and blew, the passing storm shook the trees and filled the lakes, and in the wake a nice swell persisted in the face of howling offshores.
While surfing on Sunday I found myself feeling immensely grateful for the opportunity to be in the water. It is a small miracle to be able to paddle out, to have legs and arms and a body that will allow it. It is an equal miracle to have found surfing at all; to be given the opportunity.
Rarely is this gratitude lost on me, but last weekend it was more pronounced. With the devastation in Japan I could not help but reflect on how quickly life can turn. The phrase, “that there is no day promised to you” came to mind as I watched the sun weave its way through the mid-March clouds.
Internally I had a flickering reminder that “there is no wave promised to you either.” Life can change on a dime, all the more reason to give thanks for the opportunities we have, as we are having them.
Happy New Year!
Posted: January 1, 2011 in exercise, LifestyleTags: Beach, Belmar, Community, Destruction, Environment, exercise, fashion, habits, Happiness, health, Hippies, Jay Alders, Jersey Shore, Life, Long Boards, love, Manasquan, movies, music, New Jersey, ocean, oil, passion, resolutions, Surf Board, Surf Gear, Surfer, surfing, Surprise, travel, waves
Below are ten very unofficial suggestions you may wish to adopt as resolutions for the year twenty-eleven. Either way SeaSandSurf wishes you a year of peace and good times.
1) Don’t hate on the beach that is growing on the floor of your car. Sand is beautiful.
2) Drink more pre-surf coffee so you can stay warm during those winter sessions.
3) Don’t doubt it- when it’s your turn to go, paddle and go.
4) Road trip!
5) If you find yourself mind surfing in the middle of the afternoon then you must be doing something right.
6) Don’t let the boss know.
7) Surf on a day that is beyond your comfort zone, even if it means a surf trip to Tahiti.
8) Go ahead, hoot that stranger in the line-up into the wave of the day.
9) Snake one for old time’s sake.
10) If anyone can get away with wearing a pair of purple Uggs you can. No, for real!
A special thanks to Daniel “Surfer Into the Woods” Yackewych for helping to formulate the scientific list above.
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