There’s been quite a bit of interest and subsequent questions re: my previous post, “Sucking It Up.”: https://leebythesea.me/2018/07/28/sucking-it-up/ So here’s a bit more. First, the Oystercatcher nesters right next to the pounding pile […]
The mechanical wonder that is taking place on and off our Long Beach shore is only matched by the natural wonder of our shorebirds dealing with it, some shore creatures coping better […]
Twist like there’s no one watching. As I walk our Long Beach shore I sometimes see symmetry in the life before me, on the ground and floating above…a reciprocal poetry. Life expressing itself. […]
As we come to a close of yet one more Fantastic Fourth holiday, paid for by all our past and present men and women in uniform, I give you one of my […]
The land of the free…for you and me. No fireworks here, just Americans…exploding in everyday gratitude. I took a stroll and a bike ride this week, across Long Beach, across the sand, across […]
Drowning sucks Over 3,600 of us drown every year in America. Ten people per day. Drowning is in the top five for deaths between the ages of five and fourteen. Ditto between […]
The sun was still high in the sky that late afternoon as sunbathers took in the last rays of the day and volleyball competitors battled over nets, a happy sand-and-seascape. But it […]
The captain looked sharp in full uniform…though he was deceased. I attended his wake. I worked with Harry Hassler in Transit Police Dist 20 in the 1970s. We were both cops. […]
Please…stay a little longer. Some of you who have followed my previous post have seen that not all nesting Oystercatchers are successful in their breeding. A mysterious destruction of a nest to […]
“My life is my message,” Mahatma Gandhi You may recall our Long Beach effort to protect our shore’s Oystercatcher nesting on mounds of unsifted sands: https://tinyurl.com/bdwkS-eyes But sadly, I visited the site […]
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