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Stormy Night
“I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.” ~Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories Filed...
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Positive Frequencies
I just returned from the hospital. Will be spending long days there until I don’t know. There’s a special person in my life who has always been there–a person whom I’d die for without hesitation–that...
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Sis and I
A dream-like state…that’s how life has been for the last few months. Mom began feeling weakness on her left side and her ability to function diminished quite quickly. After a scan and MRI, the cause...
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Bird of Paradise
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” ~Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes ShutFiled under: Dr. Seuss, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Photos by Iliana C. Hakes-Martinez,...
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Airboat Time
“You may delay, but time will not.” Benjamin Franklin Filed under: Benjamin Franklin, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Photos by Iliana C. Hakes-Martinez, Quotes
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A Place
“Oh, the places you’ll go!” ~Dr. Seuss Filed under: Dr. Seuss, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Photos by Iliana C. Hakes-Martinez, Quotes
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Gondola Nook
“Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak.” ~Dr. Seuss Filed under: Dr. Seuss, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Photos by Iliana C....
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Into the Wilderness
“Oh, I’m burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free . . . and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? Why does my...
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Ocean
“Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.” ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems Filed...
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Mangrove Swamp
I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. ~ThoreauFiled under: Henry David Thoreau, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Quotes
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Murky Waters
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” ~Henry David Thoreau Filed under: Henry David Thoreau, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Photos by Iliana C. Hakes-Martinez, Quotes
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Afternoon Delight
“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.” ~Socrates Filed under: Photography, Photos by Iliana C. Hakes-Martinez, Quotes, Socrates
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Mangrove Promenade
“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.” ~ Wallace Stevens Filed under: Musings, Poetry and Quotes,...
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Steps to a Path
“I am in the world feeling my way to light ‘amid the encircling gloom.” ~Mahatma Gandhi Filed under: Mahatma Gandhi, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Quotes
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Night Falls
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ~Vincent Van GoghFiled under: Photography, Photos by Iliana C. Hakes-Martinez, Quotes, Vincent Van Gogh
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Fountain
“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.” ~Washington Irving Filed under: Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Photos by Iliana C....
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Still of the Night
“Truth is more in the process than in the result.” ~Jiddu KrishnamurtiFiled under: Krishnamurti, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography, Photos by Iliana C. Hakes-Martinez, Quotes
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Ocean View
“I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same.” ~J.D. KrishnamurtiFiled under: Krishnamurti, Photography, Photos by Iliana C. Hakes-Martinez, Quotes
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Late Afternoon Stroll
“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.” ~Henry David Thoreau Filed under: Henry David Thoreau, Musings, Poetry and Quotes, Photography,...
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In the Garden
“Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye.” ~Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Filed under: Musings, Poetry and...
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