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I sat on the rocks at the beach with Amelia and Nic today. the clouds rolled over and as I watched I envied them: the freedom to pass over everything without attaching themselves to anything at all. I swam in the water for the first time in months, opening my eyes to the salt as I enveloped myself in the cold. in the sea I’m connected to every shore I’ve ever known. the same water I swam in as a child laps at the Sussex coastline, the cliffs of the Seven Sisters I climbed with some other family in another life. we breathe the same air and look to the same stars for some shred of assurance that this does in fact mean something. we still share so much, no matter the distance between us. remember this. <<