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Category: Encouragement
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The rising moon, almost full. Anyone for a moon dance? There's time enough for worry and care and grief, they'll wait. Let's Dance!
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Late blooming grasses – patient, resilient, beautiful.
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"Mom, I can't get down." "Yes, you can." "No, I can't." Yes, you can." "Mom!" "Dj!"
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It is so much fun to spend a day reading, even if it is loaded with guilt, it is pure pleasure! Writers of fiction are magicians who conjure up characters and places and whole lives of people we believe exist. We root for them, or we want to know them, or we are…
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When I lived in Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, and was ready to launch my little daysailer for the very first time, (not pictured here) I went to the Harbor Master thinking that I might have to pay a ramp fee. I asked him if I needed anything to launch and he answered,…
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The moon gets so close to the sun that once a month she disappears for a few days. There is always a big smile when she returns – a cheshire smile. I wonder what they are up to? By the time that our lovely satellite gets to Venus, she's still smiling! It must…
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Have you ever felt like you were out of your element? These two unlikely tourists know the feeling. They were found on the steps of a museum in Key West, Florida, and from the looks of them their cab couldn't come fast enough. Sometimes the holidays can push you out of your…
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Graffiti, love it or hate it. There was a secret Chinese restaurant in downtown Baltimore years ago that was on the second floor of a narrow brick building, down the street from Shermann's Bookstore. When you gave your order to the waitress, she would immediately call it back to the kitchen in Chinese, nice…