Kelly DuMar

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Morning in the Aegean

Another incredible day at day break on the Aegean. I wake into the gorgeous views having slept on the deck, a good sleep. It is Wednesday, and we are midway through our trip. Another couple on board with a wedding anniversary today––forty-seven years for our friends. Today, no walk, as it turns out, but plenty of swimming from the boat to little beaches full of stones. I swim and swim. I also write. My play, my first draft, is complete. It’s a one-act play in this first draft. It doesn’t feel like more than that right now. It’s very fresh, but I found it wouldn’t let me go today. Now I will go back and revise, of course, and it will lengthen a bit, I’m sure. I was surprised that it came, seamlessly. Okay, so, it’s a first draft, and that means only that I have something down. But it felt quite satisfying. I ran my Israeli therapist support group tonight, as I missed last week and I didn’t want to miss two weeks in a row. And dinner was late, it all worked out. The meeting, on Zoom, was quite powerful and moving, as usual. I have had a full day and it has been hot. Tonight, full of late dinner and so much gratitude and bliss, I am quite sleepy. Tomorrow, I wake to my own wedding anniversary.