Primitive anxieties in a "modern" world.
Simpler when you can see the predator,
and not some elusive shadow from the past.
How to cope?
Trust what you have learned,
what you know is true.
Wait it out.
Look around you and believe what you see,
not what you feel.
And when you are ready,
lean on a friend.
Alligator and Great Blue Heron, surviving side by side in the Everglades, March 2008.
The sun setting and the moon rising…
Everything back in place for now!
St. Augustine Beach, March 4th, 2015.
The other day at the beach,
there was a pelican sitting in the water minding her own business,
who would stretch her long neck and reach into the water.
Then she would point her beak up to the sky revealing a full gullet,
swallow and go on minding her own business.
When a wave threatened her, would she rise into the air,
only to return again on top of the sea and wait,
and not long,
as there must have been a lot of fish in those waves.
Sometimes life's blessings just come to us,
with little or no effort,
all we have to do is show up!
Pelicans, St. Augustine Beach, February 2015.
It's Bike Week in Daytona
so be extra careful of motorcycles on the road,
and ever vigilant of the humorous t-shirts that come your way…
Like this one…
Famous last words…
WATCH THIS!
Or this one…
Ride it like you stole it!
Part of this post reprinted from Laine's Blog, April 2013.
Love letters on Flagler's Fishing Pier.
Remembering Clara…
What a great jumping off point for a poem or a short work of fiction.
It gets even more interesting when you see the rest of the line…
What great names,
and loved enough for family or friends to immortalize them on the Fishing pier at Flagler Beach,
or at least as long as the pier lasts!
What's the rest of their story?
Flagler Fishing Pier, Florida.
Sometimes in our lives we have dreams that aren't going to come true.
These dreams sustain us and inspire us for years,
until one day we wake up and know it is a dream,
and just a dream.
Maybe next lifetime we'll get the skill set needed to realize our unmet dreams,
or we'll dream new dreams for our new life.
Who knows?
Either way, keep dreaming!
Cinematographer, at Disney's Hollywood Studios Park.
I always dreamed I'd be a filmmaker…
What a difference a day makes.
24 little hours!
This is true for many things,
but in this case it was the weather in Florida!
77 degrees, and surf's up!
Flagler beach from the Flagler Fishing pier, Sunday, February 22nd, 2015.
Beautiful!
Fifteen minutes later, and you can see Mars…
Another fifteen minutes and it's nighttime…
Venus is the brightest star.
Mars is just above.
Tonight Mars will move closer to Venus,
but the moon will be farther away.
Crescent Moon, with Venus and Mars, February 20, 2015.
Look West for the Crescent Moon and Venus and Mars this evening,
just after sunset.
Should be beautiful, if your aren't under a sky of clouds!
Photo from the archives, September, 2013, the Moon and Venus!
Gleanings From Living Long
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