Delightful

TikTok is a huge diversion, and depending on your interests, you can spend hours being served video after video of your favorite things.  My TikToks are mostly cute animals, kids across the world doing the latest dance craze, a young Scot, the most dramatic poet I have ever encountered.  I hope he is copyrighting all of his work and planning to publish a book!  (I do believe that the Scots are indeed Warrior Poets.)

I also get an occasional video of someone walking along a beach somewhere in the world, collecting rocks or shells or sea glass.  That is how I stumbled across a woman in Scotland who finds bits of sea glass at the shore, including bits of broken dishes that, I guess, are antique pottery.  (They are not porcelain or china, so pottery that does not dissolve in the sea?) Each time I watched one of her videos, I coveted pieces of sea glass for myself.  

I was not the only person casting an envious eye toward her sea treasures.  Many of her fans request a piece or two of sea glass.  She offered an exchange with only 5 people from anywhere in the world - bits of sea glass, etched by sand and salt, in exchange for whatever treasures you would like to exchange with her.  This was too exciting!  I immediately sent her a message, explaining that even if I was not chosen from among her fans, I still wanted to send her Permian Sea fossils from my Kansas prairie creek.  I do not know why I thought she would want the oldest, most prolific and common fossils on the planet, which are all gray and NOT beautiful like sea glass.  No comparison.  Nevertheless, I offered up my local treasures. With embarrassing enthusiasm, I might add.

Now, I am not normally a lucky person.  According to a very sweet lady in Scotland, it just so happened that my name was one of the five names already randomly chosen.  Is that amazing or what?  The little box of treasures arrived all the way from Ayr, Scotland in less than a week.  Can you believe it?  I have a handful of bits of sea glass, frosted and ground smooth from being rolled by the waves on the Scottish shores for decades, possibly centuries.  She also included a hag rock, a lucky stone, and two pieces of blue and white pottery.  Perhaps some of my Scots ancestors ate from plates with the same pattern?  

Nothing has delighted me more than this delivery from Scotland.

I sent her a small bag of Permian Sea fossils found in the clean sand in my creek, a copy of two of my blog posts about the Permian Sea and the fossils, photos of my horses and hounds and my kids with their dogs.  I sent one of my hand-painted cards.  She did not ask for these things but anyone who loves to spend time collecting sea glass is a kindred spirit.  I am sure of it. 

This delightful person is known as Seasalt Witch Scotland.  

Her ETSY shop   Seasalt Witch Scotland