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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Travel
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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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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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Have you ever felt like you were out of your element? These two unlikely tourists know the feeling. They were found on the steps of a museum in Key West, Florida, and from the looks of them their cab couldn't come fast enough. Sometimes the holidays can push you out of your…
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According to some observers the pelican will actually enter the water upside down in order to catch the fish. Imagine a pelican in the grocery store asking the pelican behind the counter, "Is that fish wild or farm raised?" The pelican behind the counter stands on his head and says, "They came…
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Living close to water with the ocean breezes, the need for grounding arises from time to time. In Florida the live oak tree, so grand and elegant, is the perfect antidote. Well over 200 years old, these living monuments surprise and amaze with their sprawling limbs, thick crusty trunks and roots that…
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