I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check." -Cora

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check." -Cora

Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.