Ashore When She Is Ready ~ Not a Minute Before
The towels are packed, the car is loaded and someone is calling her name from the sand. She heard. She is simply finishing her thought, her float and her afternoon, in that order. For the woman nobody has ever successfully hurried out of the water.
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For the Last One Out: Give it to the friend who has been 'coming' for twenty minutes at every lake, pool and beach since childhood.
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Mari's Favourite Kind: Some days call for perspective. Some call for not coming ashore. She clearly knows which this is.
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Mother Knows: Mothers of water babies will recognise the standoff and the eventual surrender.
Dawn swimmers and dock sitters agree on one thing: the air after the water is colder than the water. This garment-dyed crewneck from Comfort Colors is ring-spun cotton in rich, lived-in color, with a relaxed fit and dropped shoulders that pull on over damp hair without an argument. Double-needle stitching holds through years of pod birthdays and beach bonfires (and the bachelorette weekend nobody photographs honestly). Preshrunk and made to keep its shape, it is the layer the whole pod borrows and nobody returns. Mermaid Dayz made it for the one who comes out of the water last.