Walking Cove Island Park. 1407 Days & Counting. Like in a Row.

March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 ~ Live & Learn ~ 33 Comments

Yesterday was 1,407 consecutive (almost) mornings on this daybreak walk at Cove Island Park. Like in a Row.

So what’s significant about that?

Two events.

The first, Cara Denison, a Cove Island Park morning runner, took that shot of me yesterday as I was walking out on low tide. She shared this photo and others here and here. I dislike (put mildly) selfies and self-portraits, but this magnificent shot moved me — just LOOK at the beauty of the ground that I walk.

The second event was Lori sharing a passage (see below) from the dailyood.org titled “A Spiritually Literate Photographer” by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. This is an excerpt from their book: Spiritual Literature: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life. The words speak for themselves and also touched me at my core. Thank you Lori for sharing.

Finally, as I sit here this morning preparing for my daybreak walk, making it 1,408 consecutive (almost) mornings, like in a row, I am flooded with gratitude for all of you that join me on my morning walks and musings, and so grateful for those of you who have become a part of this wonderful virtual community that I can’t live without — it’s been 13 years here on this Page and we ain’t done yet.

Thank you, and Read on…

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She’s Back…and replies…

July 10, 2022 ~ Live & Learn ~ 32 Comments

My Dear virtual Friend David,

Thank you for this warm welcome. You took me by surprise with your She’s Back post.

Live & Learn has been home since day 1, since November 16, 2014, since Gate A-4.

I never stopped following you, Dale, Louise, or Karen, to name a few. The notification you received was me following you by email from a different email address, just putting my affairs in order.

I stayed in touch one way or another with everyone. And I am sorry if I left anyone wondering.

I am well. And as Valerie said in her comment, the past two years were full of Life and Vitality. And if that is not a blessing, I don’t know what is.

I am unsure if I am up to sharing why I left and why I chose to stop being an active participant on social media, everywhere on social media.

Days felt longer again. And there was no more scrolling.

I missed Dale in the evening. And I would pour myself a cup of tea and sit with her. I’ll read her most recent blog posts, go to her Instagram to see what she made for dinner for inspiration, and check out her Wordless Wednesday Photo. Dale, the Roses in the rain are Blog-post worthy. Dale and I texted frequently. I have to call Dale now and then, but we laugh so much that we seldom hear what the other is saying. Love you, Dale.

You are The King of the early hours of every day. My morning is planned around your Blog post and then your Day Break photos a couple of hours later—you threw me off when you posted nothing for over a week. But I reached out to our friend Dale, and she ensured you were okay.

If I were to answer your question again since the Proust Questionnaire,

Why do you keep coming back to this Blog?

I keep coming back because it is fertile ground for inspiration and because in a mad world, it is a safe place, High ground in flood.

With endless gratitude,

Sawsan

Guest Post by Sawsan, in response yesterday’s post titled “She’s Back“. Welcome back Sawsan. You were missed.

The Blogging Team: You, me, us…

July 6, 2016July 6, 2016 ~ Live & Learn ~ 27 Comments

Blogging is not only a new technology of writing; it’s also a new way of reading. In Christian antiquity, reading was a social activity, not a wholly private one. The earliest recorded incident of silent reading is found in Augustine’s Confessions. Augustine relates with astonishment Ambrose’s habit of reading in silence, a practice he had never seen before: “When he read, his eyes scanned the page and his heart sought out the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still.”…

In the world of Web 2.0, the ideal of the solitary reader is waning fast. Blogging is a kind of reading-together. It is the formation of a new kind of community of reading. No longer is reading an activity reserved for the private study, that carefully crafted space where thought is cultivated under conditions of silence, leisure, economic privilege. To read a blog is to participate in a collective reading process: on any given day, we all read the same post, the same thread of comments and responses. Such reading is far removed from solitude: the reading is understood primarily as a stimulus to conversation, criticism, discussion. Here, reading is not so much an end in itself as the means to a particular form of community. The very act of reading thus becomes a collective project…

~ Ben Myers, Blogging as a Technology of the Self

Notes:

Thank you Beth @ Alive on All Channels for your wonderful blog. A daily stop for me.
Photo: One Ordinary Night

Blogger’s Creed

June 25, 2016June 25, 2016 ~ Live & Learn ~ 20 Comments

I’ve never met Patricia Salamone and not sure how she found me. She left a comment on a post and it stuck.

“I married, raised 3 children, worked for many years and wrote in my spare time. Don’t ask me how I ever had spare time but it was mostly in the wee hours of the morning. I sent a few stories to magazines but they always got rejected. I continued to write but never sent anything in again. I wrote because I loved it. Then I retired, my children all finished University, got married and started families. I had plenty of time on my hands and a computer so I wrote, and I still write.

Although my writing is raw and I have not been schooled in writing, I did have a book published: The Italian Thing. It was not edited and it was my first try. It is a humorous memoir about a trip to Naro, Sicily and meeting our family members that live there, for the first time. We have many adventures and misadventures but in the end we had a marvelous and unforgettable trip.

…I write because I love it, and that’s good enough for me. I will probably will never make much money at it, but a few things were published and my words are out there forever even when I’m gone. I’m happy. :o)”

Thank you Patricia. For the inspiration.

Patricia’s a WordPress blogger at this handle: The Writers Desk.