Daily Abandonment

"For relationships, too, must be like islands.

One must accept them for what they are here and now,

within their limits

- islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea,
continuously visited and abandoned by the tides.
One must accept the serenity of the winged life,
of ebb and flow, of intermittency."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gift From the Sea

The sea abandons the shore every day and then returns. When we understand the natural rhythms of nature it's somehow easier to come to terms with loss, change and even abandonment in our own lives.