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An open gate, an open door – it's inviting. Will you come to the feast? Or will you say, "Oh, I wasn't invited." or "I don't have anyone to go with." You're invited. Everyone comes alone. The feast begins when you wake up and it never ends. Coming? Reprinted from 12.15.11,…
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Although the Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year, it is a celebration of light. It's the birthday of the sun. Our red star turns his warm face back to earth once again and like the ancients, we are assured that there will be another spring and another harvest and…
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Where we put our attention, our energy, our focus, there is where we live. Our life is there. It might be little things that hijack our thoughts, or huge things, but these big and small things are the ones that will grow and thrive. Strands of Spanish Moss capturing…
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Lots of vultures in the neighborhood. Owls at night, vultures by day. Scavengers and hunters and humans? Thrifty scavengers and smart shoppers! Related articles In Praise of Vultures
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If I were a dolphin I would have to make a lot of changes – move much more quickly, eat a steady diet of fish (without the taco!) talk more, laugh more, and play more everyday! I'd have to get rid of ALL of my things and stop worrying about anything! Hmmmmmmmm… …
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Where waves break, souls are mended. Found this quote without an author at the shop where I work, Expressions in St. Augustine and it was true on the Cape and equally true here in my adopted Florida home.
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(After a few choice expletives aimed at that "something" that keeps pulling me into a hole.) I want to go to the root of my happiness & hang on to it – Really I won't need to cling to it, will I? Non attatchment – non judgement - What…
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December 7 2001 Am Shack Last Day A mouse goes to sleep in the morning, would you say good night (sleep tight) or g'day!? The demons came, softly quietly as though they were so comfy & friendly with me and I had a sit down talk with myself like a…
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December 3, 2001 C-Scape Dune Shack, evening. Walking back toward the shack today after hiking & scketching & napping – I was planning on some lunch – However there was a group of clouds over the shack in an otherwise cloudless sky. These clouds looked like stylized – Beautifully stylized dolphins in the…
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Twelve years ago I won a week's stay in a Dune Shack in Provincetown on Cape Cod. Already initiated in shack dwelling by a generous friend who taught me about wood fires and well water and kerosene lamps, there was no fear, only anticipation. Craving the isolation and solitude, on my first day…
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