relaxing…

“Urban callused feet
Walking barefoot on the beach
Worn smooth by the sand”
Larry Ratcliff

nature’s ever changing canvas…

small delta….

I know, not a well staged image. Glaring light (shooting into the sun), washed out the image. But, this was a mesmerizing spot. Perhaps fifteen feet across, the water emerged from a sand dune to the left (out of sight) and moved toward a river to the right (out of sight). The resultant ongoing sculpting was, for me, fascinating.

Getting Stuck…

“God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.” Garrison Keillor

Life is like standing about, watching, observing, assessing, waiting, anticipating and maybe helping.  You see the guy driving over the hard packed sand. But, you watch as he ventures into the deep, soft sand, pulling a heavy load. As in life, you wait. You observe and know, this friend, this neighbor, this stranger is about to get stuck. Maybe you wave at him, yell to hold up or maybe you let him do it his way. Yes, it happens. He is stuck and he keeps making it worse. He erupts in anger, in a display of denial. Then, maybe, you offer to help dig him out, push him out, pull him out. And, then you watch him drive on and hope he learned his lesson.

Impressions

“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years” Charlotte Bronte

“Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic – a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.” Oscar Wilde