A juvenile humpback whale washed ashore near me, On Dec. 30th, a neighbor alerted me to the whale’s arrival at the surf’s edge. When I went down to see it at about […]
How We Kill Whales
Whales, Whales, Whales, This Time—So Close
I don’t know if it’s the warm weather and the warm seas, but it’s been a whale of a season in Long Beach these days. Those preceding links were the start of […]
Life’s Little Things
Biking the boards and hoping for whales—I spotted a hat. I asked the young lady beneath it if I could photograph her hat, and she said, “Sure.” She was beautiful, and I […]
Unbecoming Art in Long Beach
“Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.” Stella Adler I and other receptive souls think of our shore as a living mural, we walk […]
Whales, Wings—and Hot Air
There are whirling blades offshore that are killing the wildlife we love. No, not windfarm blades but the props of these behemoths that kill whales and dolphins. Ships are always offshore waiting […]
Caught in the Sea’s Net of Wonder
I loved being at sea in the Corps. It was the wide, uncertain, wonder of it all. It was so new to me as a teen, free of the bonds of home […]
Peace or Pieces
“The total number of minds in the universe is one.” Erwin Schrodinger, Physicist and Nobel prize winner. The total number of Americans with an AR 15 is sixteen million, (None, I suspect, […]
It’s Refreshing
Try it. You’ll like it. My brother, Rod, lives in assisted living. Due to the highly contagious Delta variant, we don’t go to lunch as often as we had, but coffee is […]
This is Why I hate People
“You don’t need to be the tide to rise and fall, you don’t have to be a wave to touch the shore; just be a little sand-grain and feel them all”—Munia Khan […]
Aren’t We Better Than This?
She paints love on the walls in the City By The Sea. Juliet paints in black on white for our troubled blue planet. I wrote a bit about Juliet in 2019 when […]
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