“ Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary ”
...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.
~ Diane Keaton
This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.
As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.