Easter week allowed for a short trip to a favorite spot … Coronado, CA. My wife and I spent a couple of days on the beach, unplugging from normal tasks … and the pandemic. The word recreation itself contains the importance of taking time … to recreate … make new, or fresh again.
Over the past few years I had time to work on my novel Incompetent Martyrs while sitting on the sand or at a quaint spot at the Cherokee Lodge … (see photo).
As Edward Bellamy once said …
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.