Mermaid Mondays

It was beastly hot here today. "Oh My God, I want to die" hot. "I think am going to have a heat stroke" hot. "The world is coming to an end" hot. "The dogs would not even go outside" hot.

The good news is it was humid too.

I knocked off from work early to watch Gabriella so that Bonnie could escort Isabella to swim team practice. My intentions were to tend to the garden and pull a few weeds as Gabriella played on the swings. The wonderful thing about intentions is that even when they remain unfulfilled they also remain as robust promises in ones mind. I love robust promises. So, after I pulled three whole weeds and after five drops of sweat fell to my spectacles, I grabbed my daughter and headed to the neighborhood pool down the hill.

Shortly after entering the pool, all signs of Gabriella disappeared. I called and called for her but she was no where to be found. It was then that I met the lovely mermaid captured in this image above. As she popped up from the surface of the water, her eyes pierced the very depths of my soul. I asked her name and she did not immediately answer but she eventually asked me a question in return, "What do you want it to be?" I explained to her that I always wanted to meet Amphitrite, the goddess of the sea and the wife of Poseidon. And she replied, "Fine then, so that is my name." With that, she swam gracefully to a point a few yards away and then looked back and asked of me...."What is my name again?"

There are no over heated or entirely blasé Monday blues which are so powerful that they cannot be overcome by the energy found in the movement of water, especially when those waters contain a mermaid you love.

Thank you for your kind comments on my blip of my wife. She is an amazing woman and I am blessed to be the recipient of her endless love and kindness and to be treated daily by the warmth of her glow.