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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Inspiration
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Rainy days at the beach – they're challenging for the shop owners in this tourist town, but what can you do? Complain? As kids we would complain, then play cards and laugh and complain some more. Now we might walk in between the raindrops, enjoying the wind and the wild sea, or…
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This is the time of year to be gentle with everyone you meet. The guy who just cut you off in traffic might have gotten some really bad news, and be so distracted that he forgot his manners. Or the young woman on her cell phone who doesn't seem to realize that she…
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The rising moon, almost full. Anyone for a moon dance? There's time enough for worry and care and grief, they'll wait. Let's Dance!
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Late blooming grasses – patient, resilient, beautiful.
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"Mom, I can't get down." "Yes, you can." "No, I can't." Yes, you can." "Mom!" "Dj!"
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It is so much fun to spend a day reading, even if it is loaded with guilt, it is pure pleasure! Writers of fiction are magicians who conjure up characters and places and whole lives of people we believe exist. We root for them, or we want to know them, or we are…
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When I lived in Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, and was ready to launch my little daysailer for the very first time, (not pictured here) I went to the Harbor Master thinking that I might have to pay a ramp fee. I asked him if I needed anything to launch and he answered,…
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From a moving car, these neat rows of plants offer the eye a hypnotic symmetry. It's comforting, like the rocking of a train as it moves along the tracks into the future. Is it the marking of the motion that is soothing, forward motion, like a dance, or a Bach Concerto? The…
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The moon gets so close to the sun that once a month she disappears for a few days. There is always a big smile when she returns – a cheshire smile. I wonder what they are up to? By the time that our lovely satellite gets to Venus, she's still smiling! It must…
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