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By leebythesea11 on October 14, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

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

By leebythesea11 on October 5, 2020 • ( 29 Comments )

“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 […]

Simian By The Sea

By leebythesea11 on September 18, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Diving for protein, Wilson’s Storm Petrels*… …while a nearby gull eyed an ape’s bag of pretzels. One pulled from the surf a tasty prize… …then a decision formed behind yellow eyes: Tearing […]

Lions and Lambs

By leebythesea11 on September 3, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By leebythesea11 on August 25, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

“…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

By leebythesea11 on August 20, 2020 • ( 10 Comments )

“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 […]

Birthday Love on the Boards

By leebythesea11 on August 16, 2020 • ( 14 Comments )

We’ve all turned the big one: 30 years old, forty, fifty? Well, I’ve turned the big 80 this week. And due to Covidtimes my daughter, Kathleen and her family helped me celebrate […]

It’s Saturday Night…Alive!

By leebythesea11 on July 22, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

Wear a mask and save another’s breath. Keep a distance and halt the spiral of death. Words to live by? An understatement. But we are social animals, we bipeds. So we adjust. […]

Keeping a Sunny Day Sunny

By leebythesea11 on July 14, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

Sunday was a sunny day, and should have stayed that way. But black tires raced across white sand, and the rescuer’s flashing lights were ominous so  early in the morning, it was […]

We’re Never Alone

By leebythesea11 on July 10, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

She said, “People tell me ‘it must be terrible being alone,’ well it’s not terrible being alone, what’s terrible is people telling me, ‘it must be terrible being alone’.”  I heard this […]

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