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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Environmental
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What do we look like to the butterfly – clumsy, mobile trees with no nectar to recommend us? If butterflies only live two weeks or so, and some trees live 300+ years, then the span of one human life must look to the tree the way that the butterfly's life looks to…
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How tightly wrapped are you? Will you unfold into something big and beautiful when your time comes? Springtime in St. Augustine. There are early bloomers and late bloomers and everything in between. A time for all.
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They say, if you're lucky enough to live near the beach, you're lucky enough. I concur. It's just a hop, skip and a jump away, lucky me! St. Augustine Beach, February 26, 2015.
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Primitive anxieties in a "modern" world. Simpler when you can see the predator, and not some elusive shadow from the past. How to cope? Trust what you have learned, what you know is true. Wait it out. Look around you and believe what you see, not what you feel. …
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The sun setting and the moon rising… Everything back in place for now! St. Augustine Beach, March 4th, 2015.
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The other day at the beach, there was a pelican sitting in the water minding her own business, who would stretch her long neck and reach into the water. Then she would point her beak up to the sky revealing a full gullet, swallow and go on minding her own business. …
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Beautiful! Fifteen minutes later, and you can see Mars… Another fifteen minutes and it's nighttime… Venus is the brightest star. Mars is just above. Tonight Mars will move closer to Venus, but the moon will be farther away. Crescent Moon, with Venus and Mars,…
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Look West for the Crescent Moon and Venus and Mars this evening, just after sunset. Should be beautiful, if your aren't under a sky of clouds! Photo from the archives, September, 2013, the Moon and Venus!
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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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