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Friends, paddling along together through life's currents. It's a calm evening and mild in between the storms and troubles. There's peace and quiet and a kind of welcome ordinariness, a rightness about things that begins to include the storms and troubles and the peace and quiet. All's well.
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What lurks in yonder wood? Alligators and snakes, frogs and bugs, and all kinds of creepy, crawly, things. From a boat, however, it is rather picturesque. The cypress trees and their knees.
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If the obstacle in our path is a drawbridge, a radio transmission is all that is needed to clear the way. Other barriers demand more of us. Sometimes it is merely a sitting still long enough for a genuine faith in our own talents and goodness to arise. Then doors open,…
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The green of summer in her coat's full array shading and protecting The calm of morning Before the clock begins to dictate the day Such a sweet pleasure Bird songs welcome from distant branches My love and I find sensitivities emerging As we delight in…
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It didn't occur to me to imagine what the earth looked like during the eclipse the other day. Shot from the International Space Station, this photograph was my favorite in the APOD's (Astronomy Picture of the Day) gallery of Eclipse photos. A really different perspective! "Eclipse…
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Standing on a ridge on an isolated stretch of beach on Cape Cod, my shadow is cast on the retreating waves of the Atlantic Ocean. I call this photo The Dragon, following the mythic thinking that the only dragons that need slaying in our lives are our very own shadows. Have I finished…
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The rain clouds were flirting with us all day yesterday. Little rumblings of thunder, some lightning, and a gentle shower here and there. We don't mind. Every little bit helps. Even if the rain is coy, it is very welcome and lovely. St. Augustine Beach, just before the rain.
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Looking up can sometimes make you feel dizzy. Same with looking down, especially when the tide is swirling around your feet. I once heard some words of wisdom from someone who was learning how to hang glide, it went something like this: Look where you want to go, and not where you…
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50% chance of rain… Not on my walk… Maybe later? The frogs are singing, calling in the rain. It could be tonight. Two surfer girls at St. Augustine Beach.
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Lots of folks came out to the beach to watch the moon rise on the 5th of May. It had to climb out of the haze before we could get a good look at it though. It was worth the wait on a breezy evening turning into night. A good night, moon! …
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