Long Beach lovers wait for it. It’s the annual joy when Oystercatcher chicks burst from their shells—and into our lives. These are some past photos I took of the chicks. Watching these […]
Love Costs, But Love Gives
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Simian By The Sea
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 […]
We’re Never Alone
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 […]
Wingman
Not all Long Beach birds are airborne. Harley, a harlequin macaw parrot, is loveborne. Harley and his wingman, Mike Lee, come to the boardwalk often, weather permitting. Heat is a threat. In the […]
Twists And Terns
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. […]
Be…As Long As You Can…Be
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 […]
Fuzzy Life, Clear Message
“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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