Did you know that snakes and lizards are not the only creatures that shed their skins, allowing them to grow bigger? That big, dead spider you found in the corner of your bathroom is, in all probability, just a discarded old exoskeleton. There will be an even bigger spider, still alive, somewhere in your house! I’m sorry to be the one to break it to you.
The beach is one of my favourite places to be – it’s the sounds of a breaking wave followed by pebbles tumbling back under the next one, or the distant roar of bigger surf carrying over a long flat sandy beach; it’s the sun on my face and the soft, warm sand between my toes; it’s the distant intensity of the horizon that stretches each way into my peripheral vision; it’s the way the sounds of children playing and people talking seem close, yet distant at the same time, but somehow they don’t intrude as the sun shines red through my closed eyelids.
