Cowries

Is it possible to lead a life just sitting watching the sea? Normally I find it hard just to sit and be but there's something about watching the tides come and go that makes you realise the insignificance of humans. We certainly are wreaking an ongoing force of destruction on this planet but I suspect once we are long gone the oceans will still rise and fall.
And how, I hear you thinking, is she possibly having time to sit and think philosophical thoughts. Well the 3 children are as one right now (setting up a crab residential home).....love it when they're on the same team & I am surplus to requirements...though I have probably jinxed it now. You may yet be rescued from my mind turning to the meaning of life....and that ever burning question....how do ants work out where sweet stuff is??? Can they smell...or is it a chemical signal....how do they appear within minutes of food/drink spillages?
I am also meant to be prepping for this week's tutorial...
And I almost didn't explain the title and start to my mindful day....every step towards the sea for a morning swim with B revealed another cowrie shell....like a trail of breadcrumbs ....13 in all...would that make me a millionaire in ancient Cornwall?