After a few years and two floods, I'm finally painting again. Nothing calms me down better than putting some color on canvas and seeing what crops up. The section of wall to the left of our fireplace has some damage from whatever hung there in the past. It's a rather tall footprint, and I didn't … Continue reading Originals by Synkroniciti: Outgoing Tide
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Quote for Today: Pat Conroy
The sea rose invisibly beneath us and the moon shone smooth and bright. A glossy flute of light, like velvet down a bridal aisle, lit the marlin scales and the backs of whales migrating a hundred miles at sea. The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck … Continue reading Quote for Today: Pat Conroy
Quote for Today: Jess Kidd
My sister said that when the tide was out you could walk all the way to America; the waves pulled back that far. So far that the starfish forgot there ever was an ocean and stiffened with dismay. So far that the seaweed wept itself dry on the rocks with nostalgia. --Jess Kidd, The … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jess Kidd
Quote for Today: John Burroughs
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places. --John Burroughs Image © Adityamadhav83 with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Colleen Hoover
Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they … Continue reading Quote for Today: Colleen Hoover
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
Quote for Today: George Crabbe
There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide; Where the small eels that left the deeper way For the warm shore, within the shallows play; Where gaping mussels, left upon the mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen … Continue reading Quote for Today: George Crabbe
