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Thoughts on the Sea #24

Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019by Island Mom

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you. […]

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Thoughts on the Sea #23

Posted on July 5, 2018June 25, 2018by Island Mom

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. Jeanne Moreau For other thoughts on the sea, try #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, and #22.

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Thoughts on the Sea #21

Posted on October 17, 2017February 14, 2019by Island Mom

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought. Helen Keller For other thoughts on the sea, try #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, and #20.

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Thoughts on the Sea #20

Posted on March 23, 2017June 22, 2017by Island Mom

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. Rainer Maria Rilke For other thoughts on the sea, try #1, #2, #3, #4, […]

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Thoughts on the Sea #19

Posted on January 19, 2017March 23, 2017by Island Mom

  I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. Sylvia Plath For other thoughts on the sea, see #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, and #18.

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Thoughts on the Sea #18

Posted on November 16, 2016January 18, 2017by Island Mom

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. Henry Grunwald For other thoughts on the sea, try #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, and #17.

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