(photo: early morning view from cottage porch on Sanibel Island 2009)
Heading to Sanibel Island in a few hours.
Midlife changes in latitude, changes in attitude?
Where’s your favorite place to chill?
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Tag: Vacation
How often does a day like today happen?
(photo: Sanibel Island is two hours south of Tampa, and claims to be the ‘shelling capital of the world’)
Do you have a favorite vacation destination? One that makes you forget about all the challenges, stress, and pressure of a busy life?
And how often do you get to visit this sacred place?
Heading there tomorrow.
Last year was the first Summer we skipped a Summer trip to Sanibel Island in 25 years (went to Glacier National Park instead).
It’s not often that a day like today happens in our lives.
Maybe once a year.
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Each day is a gift, whether we feel that way or not
Each day is a gift, whether we feel that way or not.
Some days we open the package.
Some days we don’t.
Which did we do today?
PS. Safe to assume you always read the photo captions?
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Dreams are essential to thriving in midlife
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
– John Updike
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Shipping our art is similar to planting a tree
Shipping our art is similar to planting a tree. Some of us will put off planting a small pot with a small tree in it because we can’t decide where to place it.
If only we would decide. Years can go by, frozen by our fear of making a mistake.
In a few short years, we could have been enjoying the shade.
Does the fact that each earthly life is so incredibly brief add to or detract from its sublime magnificence?- Notes to the Universe
In worst case scenario, the tree can be removed*, and another replanted more appropriately.
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* and used for lumber, firewood, crafts, recycled, etc