King of the Castle

To round out a beachy week here's another shot from a recent afternoon at Gonzales Beach. Like goats, kids always like to climb to the top to see what there is to be seen.

Sand Castles 1

As adults we often forget that "play" can be deeply serious and satisfying. It's not only running and jumping and giggling, important though those are. Play may involve deep concentration that is a kind of practice for the most important work we will do later in our lives. One of the most fascinating aspects of beach-watching is to see how often this environment induces this profound level of contemplation and purposeful activity in children.