No Alarm But the Tide ~ Nature Does the Waking
She turned her alarm off the first morning of the trip and has not turned it back on. The water comes in, the water goes out, and somewhere in between she decides whether it is a coffee day or a swim day. Both, usually.
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Vacation Mode: For the friend who measures the week in high tides rather than hours.
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Retirement Gift: After thirty years of 6 am, she has earned a schedule set by the moon.
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Small Pleasures: Sun, shell, wave, nap, repeat, in whatever order the day decides.
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.