Sands

How much of the world do we share with our kids when we know there are things we will not be able to save for them?

If someone had told us ages ago that the beach outside our home would shrink by 14 feet a year, would we have believed them? Would we have kept building houses on the eroding dunes? Done more to prepare?

It's been years, more than a decade if I'm honest since my feet last knew the feel of a particular stretch of beach. And yet, if I close my eyes, I can …