Keep Calm and Sail On
People ask me how I’m coping. I’m coping OK… most days.
I’ve been drinking lots of tea – lemon and ginger to be precise. In my new QM2 mug if at all possible.
It reminds me of that day near the prow of the ship… all alone (despite there being over 2000 passengers on board)… drinking lemon and ginger tea, watching the waves. Mighty, heaving waves. Feeling the calm, like I’d been completely emptied out of all grief and frustration and bitterness.
Calm. Ready to be filled with something new.
Some people would say we were crazy going on such a big, indulgent trip when money had become so tight. Maybe we were… but that’s the way we roll around here. It would only have delayed the inevitable by a few months anyway.
And we would not have had those experiences, the stories to tell, the photos, the memories. Of sailing the ocean on one of the greatest, most elegant ships ever to have sailed on this planet.
Nor would I have this special little mug, and the calm it brings every time I fill it with lemon and ginger tea.
Today I am grateful.