Patience

If nothing else surfing teaches us to be patient.

Surfing isn't something that you can learn easily it

requires time, persistence, and patience.  We

can't make the waves come.  Only mother nature

can do that.  All we can do is watch, learn, and be patient.

Even when we have a swell we must be patient.  We 

wait for breaks in the white water through which to

paddle.  We wait for a lull in the set to make a sprint to

the line up.  Even after we've made it into the line up we

generally have to wait patiently for our wave.  Well

some surfers don't quite understand that part (again a topic

for another day).

For some people patience is a commodity that is

in short supply.  At certain times in our lives our patience

is tested.  I'm watching my daughter try to be as patient as

possible.  She is about to have her first child, a girl.  Her

official due date was last week but...patience, patience, patience.

My grand daughter will come, like the next swell, the next wave

in her own time. We really can't make it happen sooner.

My daughter heard that spicy food can help speed things 

up so tonight it's either Mexican  food, Thai food, or 25 cent all 

you can eat spicy chicken wings.   Who knows maybe it will work? 

In the mean time I'll remember a lesson that my years of surfing has

ingrained in me, I'll just practice patience!