Everyone else is writing resolutions in a fresh notebook. She made one reservation and closed the book. The water, the whole year, all of it, with the Saturday swims and the July trip with the girls inked in before anyone asked about her availability.
Her calendar was built around the tide and the obligations got whatever was left. Mari saw it and said nothing, which from Mari is a standing ovation.
If you are texting someone about flights by the second week of January, this is her. She is the first entry in The Tide Pool this year. Of course she is.
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.