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Treasure Island
You ever wonder why you choose to connect with a particular person? A chance conversation, initiation of future plans? This is how one of my childhood best friends and I ended up taking a 24 hour adventure with a semi-stranger to St Petersburg. The lead-up to this adventure was a loose plan to collect seashells…
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Animal Attraction
Definition: The power to pull/attract animals towards oneself. First Saturday of the new year, and I am once again driving through the fog and feeling like I am risking life and limb to follow through on my intention to go birding more this year than previous years. This day, I am heading southeast towards Seabrook,…
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First Light
It’s New Year’s Day, and my headlights are cutting a path through the dense fog at 6:30 am. There are times where I can see at best two stripes and one reflective spot in front of me, and then there are times where the fog was so dense I could barely see the front of…
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Auspicious
The gray catbird calls out, an auspicious sound, Does he know the secrets of the forest? Does the catbird know whose bike I found Balanced up against a tree, no one around? What about the blanket fort I found in the clearing? Does he know if it’s a homeless camp, is that what I’m hearing?…