“Foam and Sunset,” by Galya Siegel-Bromberg, 13, of Thetford.Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwriterspr oject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersproject.org; (802) 324-9538. To proclaim that you enjoy long walks on the beach may be to take the risk of sounding like awalking personals ad, but in truth, who doesn’t enjoy a meditative stroll among the rollingwaves, with the screech of gulls in the ear and sand between the toes? And all the better ifthat’s with a partner — platonic or romantic or familial. This week’s featured poet, Jillian Fein ofThetford Center, enjoys a whole-souled promenade along the shore with her much-missedSister.The simplicity of the walk-and-talkJillian Fein, 15, Thetford CenterTaking a walk along the beach with my sister.We took the evening to ourselves to drive to the beach and watch the sunset.It’s rare that we get to spend this time alone together.So, we walk as the sun gets lower and the sky shifts from the bright blue of the day into the warm orange and red of the evening. And as we walk, we talk,or more accurately,I talk.I talk about school, boring things like what classes I’m taking in the fall.I talk about friends, how sometimes friendship can hurt.I talk,and she listens. She offers me the experiences that she had when she was my age.She tells me stories about when she was in high school.She doesn’t butcher her words or act like I can’t handle what she tells me.So as we walk down the beach,our eyes covered by sunglasses,I begin to cry.We take our strides in silence for a while,listening to the soft crash of the waves on the shore.I look into the sky and see a beautiful formation hidden in the clouds.It almost looks like another world,like if I could just make it through the picture frame of clouds surrounding it, I would besomewhere beautiful.But I’m already somewhere beautiful,watching the sun set over the waternext to a person I love more than I know how to say.Read the story on VTDigger here: Young Writers Project: ‘The simplicity of the walk-and-talk’. ...read more read less