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• Surfing music from the 60s lifts my spirits

  September 18, 2021

  Do you remember the surfing songs from the 60s? They became big hits and classics for iconic groups such as The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and of course, instrumental groups such as The Chantays whose song “Pipeline,” turned into a mega-hit in 1965. It went on to be widely performed by others, inc...

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• Cycles

  September 16, 2021

    Our minds create the experience of both happiness and suffering, and the ability to find peace lies within us… According to Tibetan medicine, living in peace, free from emotional afflictions, and loosening our grip on “self” is the ultimate medicine for both mental and physical health. Tul...

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• Woodland Dreams

  September 16, 2021

  if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and has seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the Haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred…

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• One way of looking at things

  September 11, 2021

  I have been asking why I’m here most of my life. If there’s a purpose, I don’t care anymore. I’m 74. I’m on my way out. Let the young people learn the hard way, like I did. No one ever told me anything. Frank Donofrio Barber Isn’t it strange how at certain times of the…

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• A crystal cave, lost, then found

  September 7, 2021

  The geode — crystals within a hollow, round rock — is one of the most beautiful and miraculous objects in Nature.  Just try to imagine how the super hot liquid rock, the magma, cools  from its fiery essence so capable of destruction if unleashed,  into exquisite crystals. Years ago I bought a hal...

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• Evelyn’s: A Portrait in Aging and Grace

  September 6, 2021

  One of the wondrous accomplishments of the best documentary photography is that it delves into and captures the very heart and soul of a subject, whether it be a person or a place. That is what has made not only the practice of, but the study of photography, so fascinating to me over many decades...

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• This day

  August 31, 2021

  Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision; But today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. From The Sanskrit   …The clouds that gather round the setting sun ...

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• Time keeps flowing…

  August 28, 2021

  Time keeps flowing, like a river, to the sea… Alan Parsons Project Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up. Pearl S. Buck As I sit beside the ocean this afternoon, listening to the timeless sounds of waves crashing onshore as high&...

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• Moving on with sadness and love

  August 24, 2021

  I’ve been living in a pandemic bubble for the past year and a half, a little solitary dream world of doing exactly what I wanted, keeping safe and isolated until the vaccine came along this Spring, and putting off literally everything.  No more. The past few days, for example. My sister and I hav...

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