{"id":2926,"date":"2015-02-10T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2015-02-10T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T12:12:18","slug":"daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2926","title":{"rendered":"Me, Mr. Magoo and the Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was a pretty full day.\u00a0\u00a0 Beautiful.\u00a0 Warm. Sunny.\u00a0\u00a0 And …. well…. just really good.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We all had our own things we were doing.\u00a0\u00a0 Mary and Haylee took a dive class together.\u00a0 Levi and I did a little sunning and shell-hunting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But mid-afternoon, I had the opportunity to snorkel.\u00a0 I like to snorkel.<\/p>\n

So, off I tread out toward the ocean.\u00a0 I find a decent place to stand,\u00a0 about waist deep or so, and begin fixing my mask and snorkel.\u00a0 Well…. let me back up just a minute.\u00a0 I can’t see the nose on my face without my glasses.\u00a0 And of course, you can’t really wear your glasses when you are swimming out into the ocean.\u00a0 And therein lies the problem when you are trying to fix a snorkel mask.<\/p>\n

I was jerking around with it…. trying to get the snorkel attached to the head strap… when something bumped my leg.\u00a0 I looked down, and saw a beautiful silvery white fish, about 6 or 7 inches long…. circling me.\u00a0 It was cool.\u00a0\u00a0 And then, the next thing I know…. this little fish…. started bumping into my knees and thighs… and rubbing against me legs.\u00a0 Like a cat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I laughed out loud… I thought this was so coolio.\u00a0 But it was pretty relentless.<\/p>\n

Finally it dawned on me…. maybe I was standing in its space.\u00a0 Maybe it had fish eggs around… or something.\u00a0 So I apologized… and moved away.\u00a0 I just swam over about 5 or 10 feet.\u00a0 And then… a couple of seconds later…. guess who came back.\u00a0 Whitefish.\u00a0 Or… as I was calling him… Quincy Magoo.<\/p>\n

I think he liked me.\u00a0 Or… like Magoo… he just couldn’t see who he was running into… and thought he had found his long lost mother.\u00a0 FishGod only knows.<\/p>\n

But all that friendly-fish activity, stopped me from the frustration of trying to fix my snorkel.\u00a0 I have long wind…. and I’m a good swimmer …. so I just put on my mask…. and snorkeled with out the air apparatus.\u00a0 It was very different, and very fun.\u00a0 I dove down deeper along the bottom a lot.\u00a0\u00a0 Both at the shallow and the deep… I saw some great fish… the entire time I was out.\u00a0 Very great.<\/p>\n

And there you have it.\u00a0 What could have been a completely exasperating ordeal with the mask and snorkel… turned out to be a completely unique experience.\u00a0 It was a lot better in so many ways.\u00a0 That is what I wish I could do in all of life.\u00a0 Oh….. to let go of expectations, and let moments…. simply be….. moments.\u00a0\u00a0 For really, that is all we have.\u00a0 This little minute, right here, right now.<\/p>\n

Thanks Whitefish Quincy Magoo.\u00a0 Just like the cartoon character of the same name … that short-sightedness turned into great luck.\u00a0 A good day for sure.<\/p>\n

And one of my favorite…. favorite… all-time quotes….<\/p>\n

Whatever you are, be a good one.<\/span>\u00a0 –Abraham Lincoln<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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