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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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Did you see the moon yesterday? After the sun set, the moon was above Jupiter and Venus in a beautiful line. When I was young, I learned that Jupiter had 9 moons. Today, so far, they have counted 39 moons orbiting Jupiter! It was the discovery of Jupiter's 4 satellites, (all…
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In marble halls as white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk in a fountain crystal clear a golden apple doth appear. There are no doors to this stronghold, yet thieves break in and steal the gold. What is it? (don't peek!) Thanks Billy, for sharing…
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The rays of the sun make their way through the woods like a painter's dappled stroke. You might expect a faery sprite to pop out from behind one of the trees. Of course you might faint if one actually did, but it'd be worth it! Trees found in the mountains of Georgia.
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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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The Azaleas are starting to bloom in St. Augustine. Robins are coming through too, you can hear them. Spring comes early in the south. This year, you might say that winter is late, or a no-show, except for those few days when it was below freezing. I'm not complaining. In fact if…
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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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