"We were meant to be field animals," writes the great cardiologist Paul Dudley White, "to rise with the sun, to be out in the open air, to be always active and to eat only when we are hungry." Living at the beach house is just such a life. I have become, if not a field animal, an aborigine. At the shore there is no past or future, no was or will be. Time simply is. I become part of nature, of sun and sand and sea.

George Sheehan, Going the Distance