If you live on a barrier island, the sand underneath you is an ever-shifting thing. Wind, water, and varying amounts of time all like to take those fine particles and move them, sometimes in one direction only to move some of them back again a short time later. In a storm, for example, much of […]
Island Life
The Beams of Love
And we are put on this earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love. William Blake Happy Valentine’s Day!
Winter Island Solitude
I’ve mentioned before that the best time to visit the islands of the Carolinas is in the autumn, when the crowds disappear but the warm temperatures remain. But if you are looking for a bit of solitude this winter, I can’t imagine a better place to be than here, where it’s possible to have the coast […]
Thoughts on the Sea #15
How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth†when it is clearly “Ocean.” Arthur C. Clarke For other thoughts, you may want to check out #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, and #14.
A Thanks and a Year in Review
First, I would be most remiss not to thank all of you who have spent some of your precious time in 2015 huddled over your phones and your computers, your coffee cups and your wine glasses in hand (sometimes simultaneously perhaps), reading stuff written by some mom that lives on an island. Bless you. I […]
Merry Christmas to All!
As it was foretold hundreds of years before the birth that changed everything: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.†Isaiah 9:2 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All!