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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: St. Augustine
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How do you see the world, little dragonfly? Processing 200 images per second, compared to humans who process 24 – do you grow faster, forgive sooner, love more easily? Are there any shortcuts to wisdom? Do you know? With all that you see, what do you know? Perhaps more of what it…
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Life does surprise us. Sometimes with storms. Sometimes with unexpected friendships. Sometimes with lilies! These "Naked Ladies" were spotted on an early morning bike ride through the neighborhood. Are they genuine "Surprise Lilies," a.k.a. "Naked Ladies"? They were that morning! These lilies were nicknamed "Naked Ladies" because the leaves…
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Summertime in St. Augustine on St. George Street. There are a lot of saints in St. Augustine. You get used to it! Photograph with a painterly effect.
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Friends, paddling along together through life's currents. It's a calm evening and mild in between the storms and troubles. There's peace and quiet and a kind of welcome ordinariness, a rightness about things that begins to include the storms and troubles and the peace and quiet. All's well.
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The Black-eyed-Susan vine is one of the most cheerful hanging plants around… until it droops. Then there is a desperate attempt to bring it back to life and its former glory. It's reminiscent of some relationships. It looks so good in the plant store that it is irresistible – year after year!…
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A shower at the end of the day and I am still lovin' this rain! The trees are sighing and happy, just like me!
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If the obstacle in our path is a drawbridge, a radio transmission is all that is needed to clear the way. Other barriers demand more of us. Sometimes it is merely a sitting still long enough for a genuine faith in our own talents and goodness to arise. Then doors open,…
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Good morning, Glory! Wild Morning Glory climbing on my deck!
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A fullish moon through the trees. Yesterday, the new moon eclipsed the sun, late in the day. It happens. Rarely! In all of the sky, our little satellite comes clean across our star. The three of us, the earth, moon and sun are perfectly aligned. Pretty cool! …
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A young hawk sitting on a car roof in the parking lot. Patient and fearless, it watches me as I watch it. If the hawk could ask me one question, what would it be? "Where are your feathers?" "Can you fly?" or "Is this your car?"
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