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Gleanings From Living Long
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Safe enough to sleep wherever exhaustion steals you away and to know that you are surrounded by family and friends. Faith that you are loved and accepted for who you are and that you can love like that too, without expectations. And a heart big enough to see the blessings wrapped…
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Early morning light creates a patch of paradise by the side of the road, illuminating these blooming grasses to create a bit of magic fit for a faery. Everything looks better in this light!
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How do you sweeten your life? Chocolate? Long walks on the beach? Time spent with friends? Fragrant flowers? It's a good day for some sweetness! (You can almost smell the plumeria!)
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Sometimes a little time apart is all that is needed. Not too far apart, and not for too long, just for a little while, in the shade, out of the sweltering heat. Just for a little while, and all will be well.
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Little feet in the ocean for the first time. "It's cold, mommy, what are you trying to do to me?" Spoken, of course, with a cry for mercy, the language of the tiny ones. But the water is delightful, once you get used to it! Like life – once you…
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The sun was setting and shining shyly on the waves after hiding all day, and then this! Rainbow after Isaac, Ormond Beach, Forida.
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Rain showers over the ocean. The outer edges of a tropical storm are headed our way. Some people break out the champagne when a hurracane is imminent, (after all faithful and diligent preparations have been completed, of course). Others worry for days and nights in advance. When I was a kid…
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Sometimes numbers are difficult to wrap your mind around. The banana spider, or golden orb spider, or writer spider, is the oldest surviving spider on earth. To the tune of 165 million years! That's a really really long time. Compare that to humans and our nearest ancestors, the chimpanzee, and we clock…
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Pelicans not only pose wonderfully for photo ops, they groom themselves with those ten foot beaks, and even though you can observe this with your very own eyes, it is still a mystery how they manage to do it!
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I walk the line… Sandpipers, St Augustine Beach.
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