At Sandy Cove

Go there in the evening of a high summer day when the sky is clear and the moon is full. The light of it, and the stars, will be cold in the warm air. Be barefoot, as you will want to experience the boundary between the warm dry sand and cool wet pack through the soles of your feet. Lie on your back so that you can feel the loose sand shift beneath your weight, mold to your spine and fill the hollow of your lower back. Feel your heels sink into the earth. Don’t close your eyes. Open your mouth and breathe out. You are sending a piece of your warm self upwards into the cold starlight to become part of something ice cold and infinite.

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