And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut.

War Without and Within: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1939–1944. Morrow a partner in J. Anne would later benefit from this routine eventually publishing her later diaries to critical acclaim.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (née Anne Spencer Morrow; June 22 1906 – February 7 2001) was an American author aviator and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace solitude and contentment as well as the role of women in the 20th century.