Lakeshore Lullaby
August 12, 2008|Comments (17)
After battling some nasty flu bug which had me paying homage to the porcelain goddess and channeling my inner college freshman, Josh kidnapped me for some lake fun with the quadrupeds (a.k.a. the four-legged furries). Since I was still fairly weak from a steady diet of half-strength Gatorade, I sat on the dock and took pictures. Just call me the pioneer paparazzi.
If this is not categorized under “simple joy” then I will… do something drastic like organize the junk drawer (which one?) or finish the aprons I started in January to give as Mother’s Day gifts. Nah.
Enter Dustin. Dustin is much happier to take brief dips in the water to cool off and then wade along the lakeshore investigating rocks or sitting on the dock just soaking in the scenery. As with any male, an attractive woman can lure him out of his comfort zone…
See?
But he is a typical male: he soon tires of the chase. The crayfish/crawdads are calling to him from under the river rock (lake rock?).
Logan doesn’t mind. With Dustin out of the picture, she has daddy all to herself.
Inevitably, Dustin and I end up on the dock watching the sun vanish into the water with the chorus of distant boats and the rhythmic lapping of the lake smacking against the dock posts. We have come such a long way together and have shared this view many times over the years. From Virginia and our travels along the east coast, then the 3,000 miles to Tacoma’s glass bridge and Lewis Lake (where Josh took us on our first full day together)… and now at a lake fed by the Chattahoochee. We traveled so far and so long without purpose or direction and somehow stumbled across a life that we love.
My Dustin-puppy. My life’s witness. My camping buddy, copilot, and partner in crime who walked beside me as I fell in love, discovered my authentic self, and transformed into someone’s wife and (soon) someone’s mother.
We need a witness to the events in our lives. The tears, romance, love, laughter, and loss… all of it, every single moment — even the ones we wish that we could forget. This person or pet is constant reminder that your life did not pass unnoticed, that you and your faults are loved, and enriches your life with simple abundance. Who is your witness?
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