seeing hearts

You never know when one will show up.

They come out of the blue...

unexpectedly.

I'm speaking of hearts and how they appear in my life.

I am holding an oyster shell.

The colors behind are the sky, the ocean, and the sand.

I'll tell you how I came to have it.

So....Lucy and I were at the beach.

We brought a bucket, two kites, and two nets.

We tried for a long while to get a kite up,

but it wasn't happening.

I retreated to my low to the ground beach chair.

Lucy decided to take the bucket and the net to catch some minnows.

When I looked up,

she was approaching with the bucket saying,

"Grammy look what I caught."

She pulled out the black oyster shell and handed it to me

thinking she was playing a joke.

(She had not noticed the heart)

I started rejoicing quite loudly.

She thought I had lost my mind.

I showed her the heart and then she understood.

She had found her Gram a great treasure.

Lucy already knew about my obsession with "seeing hearts."

The last one she found was a chocolate chip cookie in the shape of a heart.