During Work Safe Week our team received the usual list of
stress relief remedies. Boy, do we need
them at times.
One piece of advice I don’t remember seeing before was to
have an object that reminded you of something good and peaceful nearby. I think in the past I would have dismissed
this notion. But that was before the
stone.
In the first week of January my family rented a house at
Patches Beach. On the beach, in the
middle of nowhere, the weather was crappy.
We walked the dogs on the beach, watched lots of DVDs and my daughter
and I repainted our nails everyday – testing out the nail polishes she got for
Christmas.
All, in all a very quiet and relaxing holiday was had.
The beach was home to some nice flat smooth rocks. As a gift back to the house and its future
occupants, we used nail polish to paint ‘Patches Beach’ on a rock and left it
behind. I also bought one home with me.
Then hell broke loss.
Literally, the day we came home the flooding began. Then the rebuilding began. The long, long days.
Somehow, clutching my smooth painted stone brought back the
relaxing quiet holiday. It was possibly
the only relaxing week we have had all year.
