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Gleanings From Living Long
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A black beach. Beautiful cliffs. In Iceland, the air is so clear that you really can see forever. Forever – Now that's an interesting word. According to Webster, forever: adv. 1. without ever ending: eternally. 2. without stopping: continually. Can you see forever? Love forever? Some say that we live forever,…
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Sometimes a shift in perspective can transform a situation… or help you make sense of a photograph! Photo taken at Blue Springs, State Park, Florida
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What do you do when you're feeling off balance? Do you wriggle one way and then another? Do you blame some one or some thing? Was it perhaps something that you ate or drank – last night? Or something that someone said that threw you off? Do you ever wonder if there is…
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Standing on a Cape Cod beach one day, I watched as a wave climbed a short ridge to settle on the sand and then disappear. It lasted only a moment and then another wave would come along and do the same thing. Sitting in a noisy restaurant with some friends the other…
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Remember Phone booths? Remember when astronauts used to land in the ocean in capsules? We've come a long, long way- phone calls with video, space shuttles that land like jets, robots roaming on mars, telescopes exploring deep space. What does the future hold for us? Will we be able to bend time…
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It isn't really how BIG your friends are, it's how big they are in your heart. And they don't have to be going in the same direction as you either. And sometimes they have goofy smiles. Alligator and lizard pals shot at the Alligator Farm, in St. Augustine, Florida
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Wind. You can't see it or touch it, but you can't deny the fact of it either. What if we didn't have a word for wind, hadn't named it? How would we explain spanish moss dancing on the limbs of giant trees, or snow going sideways, or grains of sand just up and…
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What to do with the unlovable parts of ourselves? Try as we might, we can't run away or separate ourselves from our shadows. What happens if we sit and stay, like a good dog that wants to jumpandrunaround so badly, but we sit and we stay, and we don't look away? The…
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As you enter the season of love, with a capital LOVE, remember, whatever your circumstances, you are not alone. Your heart is full of love. There are a ton of people in your life whom you already love and a ton of people who love you. And if you are lucky enough to…
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