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Category: Sea scapes
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Just a little something to cool you off on these hot summer days. Happy Hot Summer! Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Winter!
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Our self limiting beliefs, the ones that thwart our forward progress, where do they come from? (everything on this planet is of this planet except this planet) Our cells, our genes, carry memories, not only from our immediate relatives, but from our distant ancestors too. (we are just recycled star…
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Standing on a ridge on an isolated stretch of beach on Cape Cod, my shadow is cast on the retreating waves of the Atlantic Ocean. I call this photo The Dragon, following the mythic thinking that the only dragons that need slaying in our lives are our very own shadows. Have I finished…
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50% chance of rain… Not on my walk… Maybe later? The frogs are singing, calling in the rain. It could be tonight. Two surfer girls at St. Augustine Beach.
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A huge burst of energy stormed its way through here on Saturday. The darkest clouds, huge winds and sideways rain scrambled the air. It was the day of the night when I tried on someone else's shoes, attempting to understand how her life might feel. An impossible task, especially if the…
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Lately I've been dreaming about sailing, about taking a small boat out for the day and sharing time with herons and egrets and dolphins. The large boat in the photograph was spotted off St. Augustine Beach, and she seemed to be making up her mind about whether to stay or go, sailing…
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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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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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The largest Church in Iceland provides a spectacular view of Reykjavik. Leif Erikson stands in front and can once again boast that he was there first. Takk fyrir, Iseland! Thanks also to Brooks Walker, world renowned photographer, for a wonderful private tour of Iceland, peppered with interesting Historical and political anecdotes.…
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Such a mild winter, still walking with toes in the water. Are we on borrowed time? Such a superstitious species! If we're having a warm winter, then what's the summer going to be like? Being human and being in the moment, enjoying what shows up, is the challenge we mortals have faced…