High Tide, Low Tide Cuff Bracelet

High Tide, Low Tide
Cuff Bracelet

When I was nine, I was in 3rd grade. I believed, and I still do, that summer lasted forever. I didn’t realize it at the time; I lucked out big time because I had grandparents who had summer cottages on a white sand beach. I had a mom and dad who had a cottage on the same beach. My dad had a dock on a tidal river, a motorboat, a sailboat, rowboats, and we kids had something called a mahogany push boat.

Some people are high tide people; some people are low tide people. I like both, but prefer high tide because, as a kid, we had boats on a tidal river. The tide had to be halfway in to take out our boats. The tide came in an hour later every day, and I remember watching the water creeping into our tidal river and floating the boats, which meant we could go anywhere.

There was a breakfast of Cheerios, milk, and orange juice. Throw on a bathing suit and in bare feet, I was out the door. Parents didn’t watch kids as closely back then. They trusted you might come home for lunch, and you’d definitely be back for dinner at 5-6 o’clock. It was the 1950s; kids were free, dogs were free, and moms wore summer dresses and stayed home with us. Dads worked and went off every day. There were gulls and waves, and two tides a day. The 1950s seemed, then and now, to be the most perfect time in human history to be a kid.

Life’s a Beach

“Life’s a Beach”, the bumper sticker says. And if you live at the beach, high and low tide create the rhythm of the day. What you do is different whether the tide is in or out.

Silver waves rise and fall against a dark sky. One size fits most everyone. Sterling Silver.