226 – Easy

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I like to walk on the beach. It’s good for the mind, body, and soul – and refreshing on my feet.

I enjoy occasionally walking on the beach in the twilight of an approaching sunrise. The combination of the sky’s show, human inactivity, the waves, sounds, and the elixir of the fresh morning air is a great way to start a day. Regardless of the wind direction, I always walk east because I watch the sky.

The sky show is the best when a few clouds are in the sky. The approaching sun provides the orange glow on the horizon while treating the clouds as its kaleidoscopic medium to change the colors. I don’t recall ever seeing clouds aligning as the radiating ridges of a scallop shell. Although if only those lines pointed to the extra point where the sun would say hello.

While the colors and the clouds dominate the show, I wondered if Mr. Moon is still in the sky. I didn’t look far to discover its nearly half version high in the sky.

My pre-dawn walks are short – and the pace is more of a stroll or saunter.  The sand is smooth, firm, and not steep because low tide was a short time ago. I think easy is a good word to describe this walk.

I think easy is uncomplicated, not difficult, and undemanding – let alone simple, effortless, and trouble-free. During this time of day, easy is also calm, peaceful, quiet, relaxing, and serene. 

Easy is my time as a snowbird – a time of being away from the normal routines of home – a time with fewer worries – a time serving my alter ego with the two most important questions of the day: Which way do we walk first? What’s for dinner? 

Our life here is easy and free from daily problems – but worries still exist – so easy is feeling content while being safe and secure. 

Being a snowbird is the time for the easy life. We know the music groups we want to hear and where they play. We’ve developed a group of snowbird friends from Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Tennessee, Minnesota, and Nevada. 

I believe that human nature finds it easier to be negative than positive – easier to be angry than calm – easier to complain than give a compliment – easier to tear down than to build up. Maybe that is why forgiving is not easy, and why asking for forgiveness is easier than forgiving.

Procrastination is easy for many of us, but that comes at the cost of the difficulty of getting it done later or not doing it well. Besides, we know encountering difficulty happens before it becomes easy.

I think patience is easy for some people but difficult for others. Although I believe experience teaches patience, most patience comes from our genetic wiring. 

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Easy can seem simple, but an easy answer may not solve the problem. The truth would be easy to understand if biases, beliefs, and misconceptions didn’t get in the way.

Easy is watching a pelican effortlessly glide high above – using the wind’s draft as if it was playing in its aerial park. Easy are the days when the waves resemble a little more than the gentle laps of a lake. 

Easy is the flow of a beautiful Waltz or a smooth Foxtrot. There is something about those dances that look easy, but (believe me) they are difficult – so easy is a tribute to the quality of dancers who make it look effortlessly easy.

Easy can be as easy as 1-2-3 and A-B-C, but easy also is shooting fish in a barrel, falling off a log, or taking candy from a baby. Easy is easy peasy, easy as that, easy as child’s play, quick and easy, and easy on the eyes – but there are no easy answers or fixes unless you are looking for the easy way out.

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We can take an easy ride down easy street in the Big Easy looking for easy pickings such as easy money, but life isn’t easy sledding or easy as pie. It’s easy to tell someone they gave up too easily, it hasn’t been easy, or easy does it – but others can get off too easy because it comes easy to them or they saw the easy fix. It can be easier said than done, but easy come easy go seems like an easy answer – but that may not make everyone breathe easy.

Because it’s so easy, we say easy come, easy go, and take it easy because we desire easy livin’ and to be easy as Sunday morning – but Ringo told us it don’t come easy – especially because it should be doesn’t.

A pre-dawn stroll is an easy way to start the day – and easy has been an enjoyable topic to ponder. This is a time and place to easily get lost and be swept away in the moment. After all, I like to walk on the beach. It is good for the mind, body, and soul – and refreshing on my feet. 

I’m linking to Jo’s Monday Walk as she rambles around the Shambles in York (England). Tell her I sent you.

See what other bloggers have posted about Easy

• Some Things Came Easy for Ringo (an essay about Ringo Starr)
• Easy (a short poem)
• Easy Cheesy Chicken Macaroni and Cheese (a recipe)
• Should have been Easy (a personal essay when easy wasn’t)
• Make It Look Easy Heron (a photo essay)

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