“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”  Bernard Berenson

It’s kind of gray and gloomy in Michigan right now, and it is hard to believe two weeks ago my family and I were conch diving in the crystal turquoise waters of the Caribbean.  If you’ve never done that, it was amazing.  We day tripped from the resort we were staying at, and dove just south of a conch farm, looking for those who escaped and (unfortunately for them) were free to hunt.  Diving down into the water - too deep for my daughter, who snorkeled on the surface while I looked for something alive to capture - it was truly exhilarating.  I caught three, and then later that day they cooked them up fresh for us.  The taste was of the sea, and was a fine finale to a wonderful day.  The shells came home with us, a souvenir of our time there. 

Finding sea shells on the shore was a great opportunity to talk with my daughter about our incredible undersea world.  We found whole sand dollars, washed up in the surf, an intact treasure for us in its amazing fragility.  It’s some kind of a miracle that so many shells arrive whole, intact, and not crushed into nothing ness by the inexorable and never ending journey of the waves from the depths of the sea to the shore.  Bernard Berenson said miracles happen to those who believe in them, and seeing these dollars who had survived was a very small miracle for the two of us.  We also were able to talk about the legend of the sand dollar.  It’s so cool, there is a great link here for you if you haven’t read it. http://legendofthesanddollar.com/

The first of our kids clothing in boys and girls spring collections have begun to arrive, and it’s a reminder that spring is coming.  For those of us who live in states where the seasons change dramatically, the countdown by some to the next season has begun.  We finally did get some snow – and those of us who ski were really excited – but spring arrives in on March 20, 62 days from now.  Seeing the Biscotti by Kate Mack swimwear ( a brand new collection for us!) arrive at DressMeDaddy.com in bright pink is exciting during this gloomy time of overcast skies, and is a reminder that soon the weather changes, because life goes on in a cycle that never ends, just repeats.  That too is a miracle.