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Pleasing Pelican

June 30, 2020 August 10, 2020 / Beauty, Freedom, glory, Joy, life, Perspective, Pleasing / 12 Comments

I relax into a beach chair while in the water my husband straddles a surfboard waiting for waves. The beach and the floor of the gulf in our region are formed with sand as white as snow, making the water an aqua hue worthy of a postcard. A squadron of five pelicans glide in a …

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Hidden Life

February 7, 2020 February 27, 2020 / Death, Dichotomy, Hope, life, Love, Relationships / 8 Comments

Trees, barren of leaves and color, appear dead in winter. Winter that period of waiting, waiting, waiting, with our feet on the edge of despair, willing for life to return when there’s no sign of it. Does life still run underground, bubbling in secret? Weeds have crept over the garden so slowly that I hadn’t …

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