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Thoughts on the Sea #22

Posted on March 12, 2018February 14, 2019by Island Mom

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse 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, and #21.

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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 #16

Posted on March 5, 2016March 4, 2016by Island Mom

Ah! What pleasant visions haunt me As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, All my dreams, come back to me. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For further thoughts on the sea, see #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, and #15.  

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Thoughts on the Sea #15

Posted on January 23, 2016January 22, 2016by Island Mom

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.

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Thoughts on the Sea #13

Posted on June 27, 2015by Island Mom

When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you’re left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is. Harold Pinter For other thoughts on the sea, see #1, […]

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Thoughts on the Sea #12

Posted on February 18, 2015by Island Mom

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau For other thoughts, see #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, and #11.

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