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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Florida
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Just a short bridge across the river. Easy going from shore to shore. Without it, how to cross? Swim? Boat? Pelican? Are you a bridge? Have you helped a friend get from here to there across troubled waters? Has someone been there for you? Perhaps everyone is a bridge, at one…
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Ever have trouble focusing on the most important thing? So many distractions and excuses. Sooner or later you'll put everything else aside and get to it. Tomorrow! No really, tomorrow! Marsh abstract from the bridge.
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In the hammock, St. Augustine Beach's version of sand dunes, these flowers were a lavender surprise. There they were, along with the yellow daisies and the blanket flowers. By evening they were gone.
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Safe enough to sleep wherever exhaustion steals you away and to know that you are surrounded by family and friends. Faith that you are loved and accepted for who you are and that you can love like that too, without expectations. And a heart big enough to see the blessings wrapped…
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Early morning light creates a patch of paradise by the side of the road, illuminating these blooming grasses to create a bit of magic fit for a faery. Everything looks better in this light!
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How do you sweeten your life? Chocolate? Long walks on the beach? Time spent with friends? Fragrant flowers? It's a good day for some sweetness! (You can almost smell the plumeria!)
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Sometimes a little time apart is all that is needed. Not too far apart, and not for too long, just for a little while, in the shade, out of the sweltering heat. Just for a little while, and all will be well.
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Little feet in the ocean for the first time. "It's cold, mommy, what are you trying to do to me?" Spoken, of course, with a cry for mercy, the language of the tiny ones. But the water is delightful, once you get used to it! Like life – once you…
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The sun was setting and shining shyly on the waves after hiding all day, and then this! Rainbow after Isaac, Ormond Beach, Forida.
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Rain showers over the ocean. The outer edges of a tropical storm are headed our way. Some people break out the champagne when a hurracane is imminent, (after all faithful and diligent preparations have been completed, of course). Others worry for days and nights in advance. When I was a kid…
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