How do you delight?

The Wildflowers - First SUP Summer (2024)

While it's still fairly warm here in Alabama, the SUP season is coming to a close. Sunset is happening earlier each day. The humidity has slipped away. And we have experienced a level of delight with new friends that we didn't know was possible.

Sure, I had hoped. Taking time for yourself to be on your board in this lake environment is sure to at least be calming and refreshing. That is why I started this SUP business - to share the goodness that is paddle boarding on still waters.

But I could never have imagined just how delightful our time on the water could be together. Pictures do not capture the awe and wonder of watching the sun go down vibrantly over still waters. There are no words that I can say that can encapsulate the refreshment of the soul that happened week in and week out as we found new yoga poses possible on the boards, as we shared our lives over quiet paddles, as we laid still on our boards and allowed the wind, waves and warmth to restore our very bodies.

Our last group paddle we floated into the ramp almost in darkness and very definitely in silence. Sometimes words aren't necessary.

I've loved looking back through the pictures and the names of the women (and a couple of brave men!) who joined us this summer. I'm so thankful that you took a risk with me to learn and appreciate something new. I'm so thankful that you trusted me when this level of vulnerability wasn't in your comfort zone. I'm so thankful that you let me challenge you and when you fell in that you allowed me to show you the joy of the "flip rescue."

My summer has felt like play in the most delightful sense and that is because of YOU, my new friends, as you ventured out in the water with me like goddesses floating down a river.

And if you missed the opportunity this summer, we will see you again on the water as early as possible in 2025.

For fall - let's get to work on some outdoor yoga, shall we?