It was a vanilla sundae kind of a day. It snowed that Sunday; I swam the day before, and I don’t like to do the same exercise for consecutive days, so I […]
A Sundae Kind of Love
Presence, And The Silver Sea
I love fog. So when I biked the boards recently, I was pleased to see the pale veil over Long Beach shore. Hundreds of gulls nestled in the sand… …then rose, a […]
Angels In Our Midst…
The ladies exposed themselves to me. I saw them for what they were, stewards of our shore, picking up trash washed in by the tide. Angels, pure white-winged angels strode before me. […]
The Innocents
“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” (Agnes Sligh Turnbull) Do you like poems? There are some I don’t like, too much struggle. Many evoke awe, but we have to […]
Passions, and America
It was not like shooting fish in a barrel, it was actually, shooting fish—from a barrel. I was a U.S. Marine Corps Cannoneer. We fired 95 lb explosive projectiles about a dozen […]
Life and the Sea
The beach was vast and empty, but for the shorebirds. Both east and west of me, they gathered like tidal pools of fluttering feathers. It was a sparkling October day, about sixty, […]
A Sea Of Love for a Vietnam Vet
“The earth laughs in flowers” Ralph Waldo Emerson So does Lisa Wong-Esposito. It’s easy to walk and be lost in thought. Too easy. Too many thoughts. And so sad when so much […]
Lions and Lambs
It’s hard to really tell who’s the lion, who’s the lamb, but these two creatures sleep, walk, play, and just—be together. I’m told by Maureen, it all started about eight years ago […]
Only the Bold Build Bridges
“…that officer struck that bottle with his nightstick—filling that pocket with whiskey and glass.” Do black lives matter? Of course, they do. And no need to subsume that with “All lives matter.” […]
Of Boulders, Babes and Birthdays
“You deserve it for your birthday.” You thought my 80th birthday-on-the-boards: https://tinyurl.com/Lv-onbds was it for this new born octagenarian—one whose mind might be stuck at 18. Not so. I spent the morning of […]
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