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Considering love, romantic love is all that you hear about, either beginning or ending, but the best love is the love you have for your world- your world, not THE world, but your world which includes you. What that can mean is seeing the beauty that is all around you, but especially…
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It isn't really how BIG your friends are, it's how big they are in your heart. And they don't have to be going in the same direction as you either. And they might have a goofy grin, but love works, it just does. …
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Big sky, big beach, big wind, big day, big life… St. Augustine Beach, 10 days ago, before the sun came back.
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High Surf Advisory: Coastal Hazard Statement These words are music to a surfer's ears. And wonderful to watch from the safety of the shore, the wind blowing back the spray of the elegant swells. Wild horses, indeed. St. Augustine Beach, just one of those days!
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Check. Landing gear up… Check. These Brown Pelicans, up close enough to see the accordion wings against the sky, are proof positive that we live in a very beautiful, complex, and fascinating world. You are clear for takeoff! Saint Augustine Beach Pier, once again hosting the…
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In Disney parks, a lot of things are make believe. But the sun setting at Epcot was very real. As was the food and the people and the friends we came with and the friends we met at the park. All real! Epcot Park, Disney World, Florida.…
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Taking a buggy ride through the little town of Nassau, past the funky souvenir stores and restaurants on the front street, you find boarded up shops and run down housing. Seems a shame with all the money on Paradise Island to let this little bit of real paradise decay. Maybe it will…
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On a mission to find fried lobster in Freeport, we piled into a crowded van and headed to Port La Caya. We asked anyone who would listen, Fried lobster? No… No? No… We stumbled on a couple of local beers and some conch fritters and lobster fritters before we realized…
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Vulnerable we are, like an infant. We need each other's care or we will suffer. Poem by St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). From the Penguin publication, Love Poems From God, Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Copyright © 2002 Daniel Ladinsky and used with his permission…
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Clouds over the Danube River, in Szentendres, Hungary. The rain falls on everyone, sooner or later! It's knowing it will pass, and in the meantime, sing or dance or sit by a window, as the rain falls. Same with the cloudy weather in our heads. It will pass! Don't worry too…
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