Picture Postcard

I
remember, during a discussion I was leading among older adults, one of them
said he was having trouble coming up with what to write on a picture postcard
that he wanted to mail to his faraway grandchild. yes””> He added with a shy grin that he’d been a salesman but, in
this situation, he was at a loss for words.

I
asked him what he did before coming to this discussion. He mentioned several ordinary
activities, then, as an afterthought, that he had strolled along a nearby
beach.

‘What
did you see during your walk?’

‘Seals
and pelicans on the rocks offshore.
Big waves rolling in. One
of

the
seals slid off the rock and into the water.yes””> The tide was out, and I

explored
a tide pool. I saw a….’

He
stared at me for a moment, grinned, took his pen from his shirt

pocket
and began to make notes on a slip of paper.

Mike