many people would say that an awning protects from rain or snow or sleet. i’d say that it does much more than just protect from precipitation. it blocks beautiful things, like the sun shining in a window, especially through mine in my south facing apartment on the 12th floor. that’s why i took my awning down. and any umbrellas. why live at the beach in the shade. embrace the sun, get a tan. even the weather will be apart of it. if you’ve ever learned the water cycle, you’d know that places with more water will have more rain. since the shore is so close, the weather can get rough. but rain is just apart of life. you can’t have good weather all the time. atleast not in new york.

the beach is my favorite place. the only place i could ever love. fresh salty air. hot sand. cold (yet sometimes lukewarm) water. seashells. i love them. i collect them. i have a shell wall in my apartment. i glue all the shells i gather onto the wall. it’s really pretty. the only thing better than seashells is sea glass. it’s so unique in such a mysterious yet beautiful way. a piece of glass, broken many years before, gets tossed and turned around the ocean until it’s soft. they have memories. just like water. just like the sea.

a couple of blocks away from the dayton towers, where i live, is the bay towers. that’s where darla lives. we don’t have cars so we bike to meet up with eachother. she used to live at the jersey shore, so she’s grown up at the beach. i grew up in a small town in vermont. when i was 16, we took a trip to a beach in maine. it wasn’t the best, but i still fell in love. that was the first time at the ocean. ever since i came from vermont at age 17, i never went back. i’m 22 now. i’m in college, studying marine biology, yet most of my studies are online, so i can still fit a visit to the sand in everyday. i made the money to go to college in a smoothie shop a black away. also by lifeguarding, babysitting, and food delivery. on a special occasion i’d find a rare, gorgeous shell and some people pay good money for things like that.