Saltwater and Sunlight has reached the chapter where everybody back home can solve their own problems. The hat is low, the book is open, and the ocean is handling all incoming calls. Unless it concerns lunch or another drink, the matter can wait.

Rest doesn’t always need an itinerary or a respectable reason. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is disappear into a story while the tide keeps time. The world will resume shortly. She has a few pages left.