Life is short, keep it sweet

I'm a fan of keeping things short and sweet. Some of my best surfs have been those first light surfs, pre-dawn, before anyone can check a webcam. Surfing almost alone for that half hour, the waves are ours for the taking. I can have more waves then I'd get in a ninety minute surf on a crowded point.

As I get older, I hear more and more accounts from friends who have come face to face with their mortality. The moral is always the same, live each day like it‘s your last. I was probably sitting on a surfboard, maybe thinking of Brian, when the line came to my head. Life is short, keep it sweet. It rings so well as a lyric, I had to Google it to see if it‘s been already coined. I only came across the variation, the 2018 country song lyric, Life is short, Make it sweet. (And the more sombre, Don't save all the flowers for the grave).

I prefer my version. And it hangs particularly lovely in the kitchen.