I introduced myself to the deceased. We were both cops. He lay in his casket, suit-and-tied up. A NYC Transit Police Dept patch was near him. I’d never met him but we’d […]
This Didn’t Need to Happen
Keeping the Soul Ajar
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickenson My dad and many of yours too would start with, “Why, when I was a boy…” to reminisce […]
Heroes? I Do Swear.
These days when veterans are a political topic, it might be good to pause. To take a look, take little listen, to what it’s really all about. Men and women stand up […]
New Eyes
“The real voyage of discovery comes not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust New Horizons spacecraft brought us new landscapes from Pluto three billion miles from Earth…our […]
Americans, Native and Revolutionary
He may not be the last of the Mohicans but his genes reveal the lasting tenacity of that great Native American nation. He’s known as “Montauk Man” or you can just call […]
Life, Death, Sand and Ice
The oystercatcher nest at Lindell Blvd is no more. Yes, that’s right, the egg was destroyed. And the chick was to be born just about now. This time the death of new […]
Wherethesundontshine
Faithful readers, I’ve started a new blog to supplement this sunny-side blog of leebythesea you’ve been used to. The new one serves in a kind of brother sun, sister moon capacity. Here’s the […]
Just Let the Friz Be
The continuing saga of the Long Beach Oystercatchers: If you haven’t been following, see first post:https://leebythesea.me/2015/05/27/the-fragile-and-the-furious/ Followed by: https://leebythesea.me/2015/05/31/so-fragile-so-precious/ Sunday I went to check on the sweet chicks that frequent our Long Beach […]
So Fragile, so Precious
The beach was bare…sometimes that’s not so good. On Fri. May 29th I rode my bike down to Magnolia Blvd beach and incredibly, no cones, no oystercatchers. Cones, down again? Missing oystercatchers? […]
The Fragile and the Furious
“maybe it’s time to treat all beings as members of our civilization.” See first link. Long Beach, NY is conspicuous for its compassion for the creatures with whom we dwell. You might […]
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