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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Environmental
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Living close to water with the ocean breezes, the need for grounding arises from time to time. In Florida the live oak tree, so grand and elegant, is the perfect antidote. Well over 200 years old, these living monuments surprise and amaze with their sprawling limbs, thick crusty trunks and roots that…
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These clouds look as though they could be organized into words, words that are literally written on the wind. What would the universe like to say to us today?
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A great blue heron can often be seen fishing on this beach. There is a marsh just over the dune in front of her that would seem to provide an easy feast for a heron, but there she is, hunting in the ocean, getting bumped around by the waves on her spindly legs.…
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Is the spider who spun this web waiting in ambush in the vortex at the center, or is she so confident that dinner will come sooner or later that she is napping there? This web is very close to the ground. The filaments are probably very sticky. If you were a little thing…
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Sometimes it's all that a soul needs – sea spray, salty air, the wind, and your toes in the sand. It's good medicine. Do you have a favorite place? Is it near the ocean, on a river, or in the mountains? Open space or sheltered by beautiful trees? Perhaps it's a city,…
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Perhaps this little sphere has fallen out of some distant orbit and plopped into the ocean where it washed ashore with the tide, picking up a few hitchhikers along the way. Insignificant from a block away, it becomes a fascinating object to scavengers on the beach. If the sun had eyes would…
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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 us…
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"Jeez, will this baby ever take a nap? I've been up and down the beach 7 times & she's still awake!" by Susan Bean Wirth
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The twins woke before dawn to find their dad in the cockpit of the boat with a steaming cup of coffee. Rubbing the sleep from their eyes, they called up to him, "Hi, Dad, are you drinking coffee? You never drink coffee!" "Well, today is special. In fact, I left some for you…
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An armadillo walks past a cat!
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