Kathy,
I just caught up on your thread. When I saw Boca I wanted to tell you about the snorkeling right off the public beach. Someone beat me to it. There are a series of big boulders about 30 feet offshore in not more than ten feet of water, put there as an artificial reef. My grandmother lived there as well as my aunt and uncle, all but my aunt gone now. For several years we took a couple of weeks with our two boys who were 10 and 12 at first and taught my SH (Significant Harassment of 43 years) and both boys how to snorkel and do deeper dives before taking them out to do the longer swim out to the Delray wreck. Do snorkel the public beach. You can't see the boulders because sitting on top of one your head is barely out of the water, they're at least a foot under. Lots of fish and other marine life. We wanted to do the John Pinnecamp underwater park off Key Largo. It makes for a delightful day with no more effort than walking 30 feet.
Your husband will be lost no matter the prep you try to make. Many times the wives outlive their husbands. Mine was just recently gone for three weeks to help with our new granddaughter. I hated it even knowing she was coming back. Some of us guys don't do well without a woman's supervision. I hope your guy goes easy on himself afterwards. No one lives a life with no regrets.
Kathy you've been special sharing your research with me. Though from different beliefs it is a pleasure when we can meet and share knowledge.
Here is one for us all I wrote:
Think we’re only here to help you, when we send you daily prayer?
Never realizing your courage, helps us all with what you’ve shared,
For you all have taken chances, self- disclosed, that’s really rare,
But for all the grace of our God, we could find ourselves right there.
So you’ve given us a benchmark, of just what it really takes,
To go out and meet the challenge, when the fates put on the brakes,
To the life we took for granted, to the love we’d not forsake,
And the sudden realization, that we all could share your fate.
So I'll try to pass along, and acknowledge that I see,
Things I hadn't thought through, things I now see differently,
Those I cherish just may have to, earlier than hoped take leave,
Or the roles might be reversed, they might have to care for me.
Some will make it past the gates, that threaten simple lives,
Rise again, recovered, once again their spirit thrive,
Upon the love that always was the reason we survived,
Without them would we only feel, that we had been deprived?
For those who suffer, losses deep, I have one thing to say,
Would you have them, have to do, what you went through today?
Or would you rather spare them, all the pain you had to take,
Be the one to be the rock, that helped them on their way?
I’ve lost some too, who've loved me, as I loved each one of them,
Rather than remorse, and mortal pain on requiem,
I shall smile, and think on all, good times and not condemn,
Them for leaving, me in grieving,
With no rose, and just the stem.
Celebrate the time you had, cherish moments spent with them.
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