Waiting for you became a ritual,
listening for the sound of your footsteps
in the pounding rain.
The taste of salt still remains
upon my lips where you left it
and in dreams you are evoked
by the wings of seabirds where I have
pressed our memory.
At daybreak the tide retreats without
leaving you at my shore and it is
there I accept loss.
At the hollow of my throat I have etched
your name somehow declaring us sacred.
Beautiful ❤️
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Thank you Paula ♥️
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Wow.
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Thank you!
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What a wonderful poem.
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Thank you Timothy. Have a wonderful day.
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Sad and marvellous in the same time 🙂
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merci Gyslaine, bonne journée 😊🌹
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Memories that we cherish should always be kept as sacred. Beautiful words 🙂
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Thank you so much David 😊
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So beautiful!
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Thank you Angela, I appreciate your kind words.
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You’re welcome. 💜
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This is really beautiful
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Thank you Roberta.
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“In the Hallow of my throat~ … ” Sacred Memories.. to Keep. ❤
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Thank you so much Sue ❤
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I like rituals…chaos is just undeciphered order. Lovely Miss Heart
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Rituals are important in providing some order in our lives but they can be boring when taken to the extreme. lovely comment Mr. Cake.
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My pleasure Miss Heart.
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I’ve never read better poetry on the subject of memories, recollections, or reflection of that most painful of loss attached to an unbidden departure of someone loved so deeply than I find in your poetry Rene. In my mind, the voice flows with soft, smooth intonations so mesmerizing it could be Mnemosyne’s welcome to Elysium on the banks of the River Lethe. It was there Mnemosyne granted the virtuous a gift of forgetfulness, which dulled the sharp edges of broken hearts. The image dovetails perfectly with the words so artfully scribed.
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Such a beautiful comment Dan. Your beautiful analogies are soothing, thank you so much.
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You are welcome Rene. I should thank you for the beauty you conjure and share freely each day. I always see these deeper connections when I read you. It’s as if your poetry is timeless and the connections to the heart and soul of antiquity are brought to life again in every line. I don’t know when we first started to reflect on ourselves or to explore our inner world through memories and introspection. I just know that we have done it since we were first able to transcribe our thoughts in lasting ways for the future. Now we are the future and the now and soon the past. We leave behind an unfathomable amount of soulful outpouring of every conceivable human experience. Some of these collections of words are immortal and some are the exquisite beauty of a wild flower happened upon by accident and consigned to memory, which long outlasts the moment of discovery and wonder. This is our lasting nature and one of humanity’s redeeming qualities.
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Beautifully expressed and so very true. It is truly a gift to humanity to have the capacity to express our deepest emotions.
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I’ve been fascinated with our creative expressions and art throughout history since I was a wee dragon. To me as a child, museums, art galleries, and libraries were magical places and the only reason I didn’t cry and throw obnoxious tantrums when my grandmother said it was time to leave was because I knew she would bring me back soon and was already plotting a trip to a new museum to surprise me with. What a great pal she was.
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I love museums too, my favorite place to go as a kid was the planetarium, a little later I liked to catch the Grateful Dead music in the round seating as the stars and heavens spun high above us. Art galleries are more interesting now and ancient ruins. Life is grand.
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Aha! Yes, that’s it. And the Grateful Dead was the flagship band of the free spirits that roamed the earth. I often feel a strong connection to ancient ruins and the grand cathedrals of Europe. It’s like they are telling me something in a language I don’t understand but I hear them just the same.
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One of my favorite places is the Rhineland Museum in Trier, have you been there? The ancient sites in Europe are magical.
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Oh yes indeedy. Trier was a magical place and I wish I had more time there. I want to go back to the old settlements and just reconnect with my ancestry. I do love visiting the ruins or ancient castles. I feel so much like I belong there.
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I lived there for awhile. They were still reconstructing from the war.
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Some day, I do plan to go back for a long visit. I might stay a while.
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I hope to return the m the near future.
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Awww, don’t make me jealous by getting there before me 😆 oh, never mind, you can go back to the museum and live stream your walk through to all of us living through your eyes. We’ll call it a virtual Holly-Gram.
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No fear, it won’t be soon. We are extremely busy and understaffed at work. I won’t be getting out if there soon. You will have to live stream us!
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I feel you on that busy thing! I actually was forced to multi-task today and it exhausted me. We male bipedal hominids don’t multi-task well at all. You have a deal. First one there live streams the group. 😁
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That seems more than fair!
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I think this is going to move to the top of my bucket list 😁
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My bucket list is overflowing
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I know those people! It’s really rude to pay us all that money and expect us to work too. We got priorities like get paid and have fun, not get paid and work harder. 🤨. (I hope my boss doesn’t read this or I might get an unplanned change in my work status 😬)
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Sigh, such is life Dan. 😊
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So it is. We don’t have to like it. We just have to do it. 😏
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I signed a contract, you?
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Yes I did. I still work for the Army on contract. It gets renewed every year but I bet if I go to work in my dark gothic steampunk vampire outfit and bite our contracts lady, my contract will not get renewed or they will move me to the section where the other dark gothic steampunk vampires work. At least then I’ll be with my people 🧛🏻♂️🤪
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Lol! Now there’s a plan!
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😂. I think that’s why they put me in the research and development department so I could hang out with all the other wonderfully strange people. Now, if we could just get management to stop making decisions that create more work, we’d be able to get back to being proper introverts.
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You have to admit you enjoy being a part of the Stange ones.
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I would only admit it to you Rene, but yes, I do enjoy the eccentricity in my life. 😁 (it helps with my writing)
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It’s very essential to indulge the unorthodox, the eccentric and even the mad… from a distance on that last one 😊
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Ha ha ha, y e s s s s! I do like to wander too close to madness at times. It’s like a therapeutic massage for my head elves. The secret is not to stay too long. 🤪
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Regardless of how alluring the madness may be, we must hurry along 🙂
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Yes indeedy, I’m easily influenced. It would never do for me to hang around Disney World too long or I’d think I was supposed to be in the parade too. 😎
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You are supposed to be in the parade!
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Waaa haaa haaaa! I just had a very clear mental image of that. I would definitely fit right in. I’d have all the kids dancing in the street. 👯♀️💃🏼🕺🏻👯♂️
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You’d have no problem getting me out there. That’s what we do at Disney World 🌍 😊
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Disney World is a great place for adults to have fun. Which Disney character would you like to be in the parade?
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It’s essential that I be Cinderella because she has a castle. And you? Do you have any glass slippers laying around?
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While I fetch your glass slippers, I wonder if Resa would make your ball gown. I’m in need of a Princely Tuxedo too.
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I suppose I could ask her. 🙂 I don’t think she makes Tuxedo’s but who knows….
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I’m sure anything Resa puts her creative mind and skills to will be perfect. I’m already imagining the breath taking spectacle of it all. I have to remind myself not to gawk and giggle like a tourist. 😁
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Oh indeed! Gawking is expected and required 😊
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Waaa haaa haaa! The more the better. Disney World meets Key West. It’ll be awesome.
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Key West is my favorite haunt. 🙂
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I would love to live in Key West and be one of the colorful and eccentric locals. I haven’t been back in many years but I knew it suited me well. Of course, I’d have to have a sail boat too. 😎
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I once thought about buying a house in Key West but the tiniest shack was over a million dollars.
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Your Grandma was a gem!
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Yes! She was. I often think she was much more than she let on. She believed in silence and descretion in all things so she was never chatty but what she did say and do was always insightful and captivating to me.
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A gem indeed. They leave us with such warm memories and so much gratitude.
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I cannot say it better than that Rene. It’s kinda funny in that no matter how old I get, I think of my grandmother frozen in time and me still that little knee crawler.
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Grandparents can play a huge part in our lives as you know Dan. Thank heavens for the good ones.
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I was blessed with extraordinary grandparents that instilled all of the right strengths and values in me to give me a life full of wonder and adventure. It might have been reading my grandmother’s copy of Tom Sawyer that help me develop a mischievous nature. 😁
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Holly, I love the reference to the daybreak tide. Well done. Keith
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Thank you Keith!
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I am amazed by the composition of your words, Holly. You make each poem a song with words.
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That’s beautiful, thank you Erika!
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😊
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It’s beautiful and his name is still on my lips, even thought he has been gone for so long. ❤
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I knew you could relate to this Gi. ❤️
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I don’t have words for how beautiful this felt.
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Oh! Thank you so much Colleen.
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You’re very welcome Heart.
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That’s such a beautiful and inspiring comment Chatter!💜
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I just want you to know the beauty I see in you, your words.
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Thank you Colleen, I’m very moved by your words. 🌷
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You are very welcome Holly ❤
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♥️
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I know this feeling, even today when I am not waiting, I wait.
You capture life’s moods, victories, losses, whimsies and so much more with your poetry.
This poem, like many, is a bird in a cage. The door is open, but the bird chooses to remain.
Love it!
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Perhaps the bird feels it is in the right cage. Such a lovely comment Resa. ♥️
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Beautiful !!
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Thank you Tara.
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ich danke, beste Grüße von mir zu dir, Klaus
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To you as well Lieber Klaus. Liebe Grüße 🌷
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so machen wir es
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wir können wir müssen. Grüße Klaus.
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so ist es
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Guten Tag 🌞
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Splendidly poignant
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Thank you Derrick
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Lovely and dreamy–it makes me think of a rainy day. 🙂
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Rainy days can be melancholy for me, but I love to listen to the rain at night. Thank you so much Merril.
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Yes, I meant that sort of melancholy. 🙂
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😊
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Such a beautiful declaration of love
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Thank you Megha, Lovely comment!
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My pleasure Holly
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Love, lonely, and sad … yet powerful.
FYI: Weekend concert returns this Saturday … Elton
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Thank you Frank! Yes I know about Elton. Last week I went to the Florence and the Machine concert ! I have some pics.
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Did you enjoy the concert?
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It was fun. 🙂
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‘At the hollow of my throat I have etched your name…’
So beautiful.
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Thank you so much Robert.
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When I read your poem, Holly, I heard the sea that comes caress the feet of the lonely soul.
Love ❤
Michel
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Beautiful words Michel. Love ♥️
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I felt a sense of sadness and beauty within your poetic work.
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There is sadness Charlie. thank you for the kind words.
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You are welcome, Holly. Bless you my friend. 🙂
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Bless you Charlie. 😊
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🙂
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you Chuck.
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Beautiful to read, Holly.
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Thank you Syl.
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Sweet and romantic write !
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Thank you so much!
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🌹🌹. Lovely Rene
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Thank you Roy 🌹🌹
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Very welcome🌹
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Oh I love this. The waiting to hear footsteps…what a feeling that never leaves us. Your poems are always so beautiful. I love the feeling of the ocean. So beautiful ❤
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Thank you so much Michelle, such a beautiful comment! ♥️
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I always love your comments too.
I’m using my computer today and everything works better than my phone. Go figure! 🙂 ❤
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Same here…for the moment. 🙂 ❤
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
A FINE PIC AND POEM! PICTURE’S CLOSER TO WHAT OUR FRIEND DREW MIGHT SHOW! 😀
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It’s rainy up in Glasgow and I’m alone on tour, it’s been nearly two months very poignant poem for me. Lovely Holly xx
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Aw, I hope the time flies. Sending hugs!
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Reblogged this on John Cowgill's Literature Site.
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Thank you so much John!
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You are welcome so much Holly!!
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🌹🌹🌹
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Can you hear the waves at night from your house?
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Are you following me? 😊
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Your blog, Coeur de feu, only your blog. 😉
It just struck me, the frequent references to the sea in your work, the waves. I know (more or less) in what neck of the wood you lived, so it dawned on me.
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Just teasing a little! 🙂
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I know, I know. 🙂
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😊
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I can hear them Brian. It’s quite beautiful. Thank you for asking.
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It is probably the sweetest lullaby. We had a house in Africa a few yards away from the sea. At the Equinox, the waves would crash on the terrace. I spent some of the best years of my childhood going to sleep to the crash of the waves. On one side. And the drums of the Africa village on the other side of the house. Enjoy the sweetest music.
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There’s nothing as soothing as soft waves flowing in or frightening as a storm roaring in….Nature is amazing! Your life is exciting Brian!
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Yes. You’re right. I han’t thought of when hurricanes reach you. 🙂 Though I can imagine: at the high tides of Equinox, the sea would swell and often a storm would come. The waves crashed on the terrace, and obviously, little sister and I were outside with plastic raincoats to watch the sea and rain mix. 🙂 I will never forget that.
Exciting? I was lucky. Born in the right family of wanderers. Then I pushed my luck. Just a little. It’s all you need to do, push your luck, try things new.
Take care Coeur de feu.
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It does sound exciting ! You take care as well Brian!
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❤
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Peaceful and beautiful. Excellent.
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Thank you 😊
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