The cooler has been packed since Tuesday. After a winter of boots and a space heater under the desk, the first real beach morning finally shows up on the forecast, and she is under a wave before anyone has found the sunscreen.
When she comes up she looks like a woman who just remembered how to breathe. Pearl, who kept watch over the dock all winter, considers this an overreaction.
Somebody you know has counted down to this exact morning since September. Teachers, especially. June opens The Tide Pool, and she was never going to be last in.
When the tail is in the closet, the shirt has to say it for you. The Comfort Colors 1717 is a heavyweight 6.1 oz tee cut from 100% ring-spun cotton grown in the USA, garment-dyed and soft-washed so it already feels like a tide-worn favorite on the first wear (and preshrunk, so the fit holds from June to the cold-water months). It is the tee for the long business day that ends at the lake, and for the landlocked believer whose nearest ocean is a screensaver. Soft on the skin, sovereign in the room. Mermaid Dayz prints it for the woman who has a mersona and a mortgage.