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Today's word: moon tide, 1) poetic, The time when

Today's word: moon tide, 1) poetic, The time when the moon is illuminated, night-time.

2) A tide caused by the gravitational pull of the moon on the sea. Lexico.com

Tonight's moon is a waning Gibbous moon which I've always suspected must have something to do with monkeys. Turns out I am wrong.
Gibbons are apes in the family Hylobatidae. Gibbous=Moon, Gibbons=Ape. You say too-mat-ho, I say tuh-mei-tow. (Which should ONLY be eaten in August, by the way.)

Well now that we've had a run through the nooks and crannies of my brain, shall we marvel at last week's full moon? We only get about 920 full moons in a lifetime. Take a moment to take th#lenten

Thanks to Barbara for today's word.

While we're in winter quarters along the Atlantic, I'm giving my attention over to tides, saltwater, and sand. You can join in the fun by sending me an interesting word, which I will marry with a salt-water-inspired image.

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March are you lion or lamb? #meaningart #creativ

March are you lion or lamb?

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This is a very practical, down in the trenches tal

This is a very practical, down in the trenches talk about how to improve your art. I highly recommend giving it a look. Spoiler alert, there are 7 ways to improve:

1) Work daily, even if all you do is draw one line.

2) Focus on volume, figure out where 90 percent of your learning comes from and stop when you reach that point to move on to a new piece.

3) Steal from other artists. Steal from one that's plagiarism, steal from 100, that's innovation.

4) Conscious learning, take art classes, watch tutorials.

5) Rest, let your work rest so you can detach from it.

6) Feedback, seek it out.

7) Create what you love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM39qhXle4g&t=830s

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Today's word: Thunderation, an exclamation of surp

Today's word: Thunderation, an exclamation of surprise or petulance. Dictionary.com

I left for a late afternoon beach bike ride under sunny and hot conditions. As I rode these dark clouds started gathering. I was so mesmerized by the dark against the light, I didn't think about the danger of being the tallest thing on the beach until the first rumble of thunder.

Thunderation! I quickly turned my bike around and headed for safety.

Thanks to Cyndy for today's word.

While we're in winter quarters along the Atlantic, I'm giving my attention over to tides, saltwater, and sand. You can join in the fun by sending me an interesting word, which I will marry with a salt-water-inspired image.

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Incline towards the light. Ever wonder how you're

Incline towards the light.

Ever wonder how you're going to make it through the day? Feel like you've got too much to do, too few resources, that you're unprepared or don't know how to either balance it all or do it all well? Some days before I pick up a brush or pen, I think, "I have no idea how to"....fill in the blank. Whatever I do disappoints. I lack the skill and ability.

And then I give myself permission to disappoint myself and others. I lean in towards the light because none of us knows how to do it until we're doing it. And no single day, except maybe the last one, is the "final exam."

May you lift your face to the light. May you carry on learning and leaning into the light. May you see the disappointments as the very earthy manure required to nourish life, your life.

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Today's word: Mellifluous, sweet, or musical; ple

Today's word: Mellifluous, sweet, or musical; pleasant to hear. Oxford Languages.

Spring is starting her mellifluous song here in the low country. Cypress and Maple catkins drip like rubies from every branch. Camellias, in their wrecked splendor, carpet walkways in white and pink blossoms. Azaleas give us glimpses of their shocking pink slips. It's reassuring after winter's gloom to hear the spring's mellifluous call in bird song and bloom.

Thanks to Pamela (all the other friends who answered the call!) for today's word.

While we're in winter quarters along the Atlantic, I'm giving my attention over to tides, saltwater, and sand. You can join in the fun by sending me an interesting word, which I will marry with a salt-water-inspired image.

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Mists linger. The ancient Japanese calendar divid

Mists linger.

The ancient Japanese calendar divides the year into 24 seasons which are further split into 72 ko, or micro seasons.

It's beginning to warm up and as it does, mornings are often misty with fog. On this first day of March, I'm remembering how Grandma forced pussy willows into bloom on her March kitchen table. This season of forced bloom, a down payment on spring.

I don't have pussy willows here in winter quarters but I do have Loropetalum or Chinese fringe flower. It's a member of the Witchhazel family. Not chartreuse but shocking pink.

Spring, she likes to dazzle.

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Today's word: Castle, 1a: a large fortified buildi

Today's word: Castle, 1a: a large fortified building or set of buildings b: a massive or imposing house
2: a retreat safe against intrusion or invasion. Merriam-Webster.

The second definition of safe retreat is the definintion speaking to me today. I'm keenly feeling the losses that have racked up over the past year. The severing of community and connection is gutting. My safe retreat is lament, a fierce fist shaking at the Universe that asks questions and demands answers. That sits in the sun near the ocean and hears the communal cry of sorrow and rage.

Lamentations is best done on days when the sun shines brightly. Warmth and sunshine feel kind, generous and loving. When we lament we need the universe to shower us with warmth and attention, we need soothing and acknowledgement.

May the sun shine on your lamentation, may the universe provide the castle of safe retreat.

Thanks to Marion for today's word.

While we're in winter quarters along the Atlantic, I'm giving my attention over to tides, salt water, and sand. You can join in the fun by sending me an interesting word, which I will marry with a salt-water-inspired image.

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Whether we believe we've been handed a winning or

Whether we believe we've been handed a winning or losing hand, life requires our openhearted presence.

"We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better," Rachel Naomi Remen writes in Kitchen Table Wisdom.

All of life, the losses and wins, the succeeding and failing, is useful in our quest to grow in wisdom and love better.

May we be present with all of life's gifts, even the ones in the ugly wrappers.

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Hey friends, I'm running low on words. If you've p

Hey friends, I'm running low on words. If you've played before, don't be shy, send me more. If you haven't played, join in!

Today's word: Synchronicity, the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. Dictionary.com.

One of the beautiful puzzles of life is deep connections when friends say just the right thing. Or provide perspective or information you didn't even know you were looking for. Still, once they present it, it fits like the missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle of life.

May life's synchronicity surprise and delight you today.

Thanks to Marcia for both the word and the delight of synchronicity.

While we're in winter quarters along the Atlantic, I'm giving my attention over to tides, salt water, and sand. You can join in the fun by sending me an interesting word, which I will marry with a salt-water-inspired image.

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Heartbreaking. 500,000 (more, probably) of us gone

Heartbreaking. 500,000 (more, probably) of us gone. Edna St. Vincent Millay conveys the loss in What lips my lips have kissed...

"Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more."

The vaccine is on the horizon, if only we can hold on just a bit longer. Grant us patience, gentleness, healing.

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Today's word: Engulfed, to flow over and enclose.

Today's word: Engulfed, to flow over and enclose.

At home, they are climbing out of the deep freeze. Days spent below zero familiarizes you with discomfort and equip you to endure. Severe cold forces us to our limits. Introduces us to the idea that there are forces beyond our control. Check's our belief in self over community. Edges us up against mortality.

Winter in the low country is easier. They have their own time of tribulation when hurricane season comes.

We all have seasons of tribulation--times when life engulfs us. It's the universal state of man to wrestle with mortality, with limits. There's no shame in reaching our limits, in failure, in death. February's shade of winter reminds us, we are all engulfed.

Thanks to May Sarton, Journal of Solitude, for today's word.

While we're in winter quarters along the Atlantic, I'm giving my attention over to tides, salt water, and sand. You can join in the fun by sending me an interesting word, which I will marry with a salt-water-inspired image.

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"Whatever is within the flowers is within us. We a

"Whatever is within the flowers is within us. We are a part of this universe! Whether I’m looking at a human hand or looking at the galaxies of shooting stars or the flight of a bird…something marvelous is going on and I’m part of it. We’re all part of it!"
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

And it's good to remember that nature and life are messy, imperfect. Imperfection is the real deal, the juice of life. May your cup of life runneth over.

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Start close in, don't take the second step or the

Start close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don't want to take. David Whyte, Start Close In

I made these roses for you. It's the closest step for me. The roses aren't perfect, won't solve the world's problems, won't gain you or me fame or fortune. They are from me to you, with love and humility and hope.

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Today's word: eremite, HERMIT. Webster-Merriam Dic

Today's word: eremite, HERMIT. Webster-Merriam Dictionary.

I've long dreamed of running away to become a hermit or a dessert mother. Or maybe join a monastery, though obviously, that would be problematic, so perhaps a cloister.

This year with its isolation, brought the eremitic experience home to me. Did I embrace it? I did not.

Strange how when the universe offers us EXACTLY what we say we want, we find ways to quibble, to find fault, to question.

Reminded that I asked for this eremitic life for a decade, I'm exploring the contours of absence, nothingness, emptiness. Once you get over the shock of nothingness, it's SOMETHING.

Thanks to Doris Grumbach's Fifty Days of Solitude for gifting me with today's word.

While we're in winter quarters along the Atlantic, I'm giving my attention over to tides, salt water, and sand. You can join in the fun by sending me an interesting word, which I will marry with a salt-water inspired image.

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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is th

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing.

Winter allows us to explore what Paul Valery calls "the presence of absence." Winter, it's cold and dark, allows us to experience the wholeness of nothingness. We're swimming in life's deep end. You can't add or subtract or divide nothingness. There's no changing emptiness.
May you look carefully. May nothingness without boundary or center, fill you in the way a winter night's darkness fills the heavens.

Special thanks to Toni Arends for graciously allowing me to paint her stunning photo.

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Today's word: cabin fever,: extreme irritability,

Today's word: cabin fever,: extreme irritability, and restlessness from living in isolation or a confined indoor area for a prolonged time. Merriam-Webster.

Forgive us our bout of cabin fever. It's bitterly cold all across the country. Where it's not snowing, it's been raining for days. And we've been quarantining for 10 months.

Today I send you a bit of cabin fever cure--sunshine and sea air. Ocean sounds too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7qRkUYu580.

May the radiance of the love I send out to you warm your soul and break our collective cabin fever. Amen.

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A unicorn sheep because…..why not? Whimsy, my go

A unicorn sheep because.....why not? Whimsy, my go-to medicine to cure an acute case of cabin fever.

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Today's word: irrepressible, impossible to repress

Today's word: irrepressible, impossible to repress, restrain, or control. Merriam-Webster

Fog has been our constant companion this past week. So ephemeral and irrepressible. There is no escape from it's drifting haziness like a sleep that won't come, an incomplete awareness swallowing questions.

It smolders like smoke, drifts like snow; refusing to condense into answers or form. Simply itself and irrepressible.

Thanks to Carolyn for this word.

While we're in winter quarters along the Atlantic, I'm giving my attention over to tides, salt water, and sand. You can join in the fun by sending me an interesting word, which I will marry with a salt-water inspired image.

#southcarolina #myrtlebeach #nature #naturephotography #naturelovers #beachphotography #oceanphotography #wildlifephotography #landscapephotography #cityscapephotography #southcarolinaphotographer #iphonephotography #itakepictures #hobbyphotography #newtophotography #scphotographer #myrtlebeachphotography #beachlife #sunset #sunsetphotography #sunrisephotography #travelphotography #myphotography #mypictures #HiltonHeadPhoto #hiltonheadbeach #wordplay #worddive #worddefinition

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