Tag: Nature
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Fighting To Bloom Another Day
What a summer! I have spent the summer by the lake enjoying glorious sunrises in an unattended garden dodging rabbits and lawn tractors. My neighbor, the pink rose, was not as fortunate and met its fate earlier this week by the lawn tractor blades after weeks of the bunnies nipping on her leaves. Another summer…
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Letting Go of “Why?” To Be Free To Wander
As we wander alone on the shores of tranquility are we able to quiet our minds for a moment of silence and reflection or do our minds resemble a Lake Michigan rip current that sweeps through with a sudden force as the winds of doubt crash into the large waves of unanswered “whys?” swirling in…
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Morning Visitors
I would like to say I came across our morning visitors on a quiet morning with slivers of blue sky visible through the trees, the sound of birds saying good morning to one another and leaves falling through the trees, but in reality the quiet morning was drowned out by Gabby running through the house…
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“You Don’t Choose A Life, You Live One” – Musings about Life and the Wonderful Movie, The Way
Very early in the film, The Way (currently streaming on Netflix), there is a scene of a father (Martin Sheen) driving his son (Emilio Estevez) to the airport after the son has made the decision to drop out of graduate school and travel the world. The son asks the father to join him on his…
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Musings about A Walk in the Woods Starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte
Labor Day weekend offers a wonderful opportunity for nature lovers and adventurers to take a walk in the woods, but if you are like me and have a slight aversion to bugs, a huge aversion to snakes and have Pepe Le Pew and his friend visiting on a regular basis and living in the nearby…
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The Gift of Sunrise
(Photos by A Curious Introvert) In the magical hour of the morning as nighttime fades and the moon slips away to bring forth the gift of another day and a magnificent sunrise on the horizon, we are given the opportunity to witness beauty and start afresh. There is no guarantee that the sunrise that greets…
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Simple Enjoyments of Summer
(Photos by A Curious Introvert) As summer moves toward its hottest days (dreaming of cool Fall days and football) and passes by in a blink of an eye, it feels like a good time to slow down and enjoy some of the simple things of summer and try to avoid the summer heat and crowds.…
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