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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Inspiration
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Do you ever want to just disappear? Blend into the background ? There is camouflage for almost every occasion! Of course, as children we might have learned very early on how to melt into the wallpaper – a defense mechanism, better left in the tool box, most days. …
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Never too gnarly for these avian surfers, and always a joy to behold. More wind in St. Augustine with the Brown Pelicans making the best of it.
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According to Webster: woof: the threads interlacing at right angles with the warp in a woven fabric. When we are young, we think we should chase sadness away, banish it as though it were something dirty and undesirable, only to have it pop up again and again and again. As we age, we…
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Another wild windy day at the beach. Is it really ourselves we find in the sea? whatever we lose like a you or a me it's always ourselves we find in the sea. Perhaps, if we are paying attention, it is ourselves we find everywhere. A remembered shard of…
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The different elements of this flower seem not to belong together. Yet one without the other might not be as beautiful, might in fact appear ordinary. It's good to have friends like that, who might not make you look better, necessarily, but who help you to feel better, and more importantly, to…
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Little Blue Heron, patiently watching, waiting for this intruder to go away. Oh, nevermind, I'll leave. G'day! Says the Little Blue Heron.
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In the eye of the beholder.
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Gray sunrise from last November. Eyelids getting heavy. Computer about to freeze. Hurry and post the post.
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All day an easterly, nor'easterly wind. These skillful navigators of what life throws at them on any given day, are flying right into it, facing the challenge head on. Fearless? Brave? Whatever it is, let's bottle it and open up a stand. Wild waves in the wild wind,…
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On tippy toes… I wonder what they think of each other? Aden at Marineland, with a beautiful dolphin who had been trained to come to the window and smile at the children!