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The Best Things in Life are (nearly) Free
Recently I was headed down the coast with my sister to a sea glass festival on the central California coast. Along the way, we stayed a couple nights in Ft. Bragg, to visit world-renowned Glass Beach. This post will include highlights of that journey down Highway 101 through the beaches and redwoods of Oregon and […]
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Auld Lange Syne Again
Should Old Acquaintance be forgot and never thought upon The flames of Love extinguished and fully past and gone: Is thy sweet Heart now grown so cold, That loving Breast of thine; That thou canst never once reflect on Old Long Syne? Robert Burns immortal poem reminds us to appreciate the virtues of reconnecting […]
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Into the Wild
Right now, the signs of Fall are everywhere in the Pacific Northwest. Lately I have been lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the woods, witnessing the changes of the season. And extra lucky to have as a forest companion an 84 year old man who has spent his life working in the […]
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The Spirit of Materials-Earth, Water, Air and Fire
MATERIAL ~The Matter from which a things is or can be made. The dictionary definition of material lists it as a noun or adjective, a name or a description. Used as an adjective, it describes something that is “important, essential and relevant.” Recently I have been a participant at several art events where the material […]
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Sea Glass Safari
“I tramp a perpetual journey.”-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself My sixteen year old daughter Sophia and I just returned home from a trip to the California coast. It was our first road trip together. We were headed to a Sea Glass Festival in Cayucos. I was one of forty other sea glass artists, writers, and […]