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Behind mist awaits hope

April 3, 2008

A leaf flew into the window last night during a storm of 170 kilometres per hour winds. It plastered itself onto the glass and is still there now stuck like glue offering an image to the brief frailty of all life. Everywhere I turn and look there is branch debris, the wind is still strong, [...]

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Mood changer

October 18, 2007

“Quick”, I yell out to Sally. “Grab your rainbow hat and let’s go searching.” Sure enough, within minutes a rich vibrant arch of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple cuts down out of the sky and lands just meters from us. Like circus kids beaming happy at the joyful stunts of clowns, our “in [...]

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Sore knees, happy heart

May 11, 2006

Today, as I have done nearly every day for the past few months, I hauled cut tea-trees out to the cliff top to form protective barriers in an attempt to subdue the wind as it roars in from Storm Bay and hammers the little tree seedlings sheltering in, what turns out to have been, flimsy [...]

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Good, Bad and Ugly

September 16, 2005

It’s been a Clint Eastwood sort of week with plenty of the good, the bad and the ugly The Good Last Friday and I should have known that, as the sea had remained mirrored calm for five straight days, something was afoot. On Saturday clouds moved in slowly like heavy fog and banked up out [...]

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A balanced life

September 23, 2003

Today is the spring equinox (fall equinox for the northern hemisphere). The day where everyplace on earth receives an equal 12 hours of sunlight. A balanced distribution of light, so to speak. It’s hard to give a single sense of being in balance in any one day. It woud require, it seems, a look at [...]

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Twin billing

June 19, 2003

The sound woke me up. Massive waves cresting at 24 feet roared into Roaring Beach this morning. Quickly, I scurried over to the Drop Stone bench and sat spell bound like a seven year old on Christmas morning. With great joyful anticipation of bigger and bigger things to come, I saw with widening eyes the [...]

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