Nature's Mandala
Creativity?
Creativity? Not much creativity going on around here lately. Life keeps getting in the way. Along with a dose of burnout these past months. Yesterday I find myself sitting…
Mahjong | Still Life Series
Mahjong is a very popular tile-based game developed in China during the Qing dynasty during the mid to late 1800s. It quickly became popular throughout Asia and was brought to…
“Test Pattern,” Circa 1950….short fiction
Circa 1950. The old man and Cat have looked after one another for years in their dingy, run-down flat, for as long as Cat could remember.They shared a simple but…
The Explorers Club Flights of Fancy
Imagine spending your days with other scholars in a beautiful but dimly lit library built in the most beautiful Baroque style, surrounded by hundreds of ancient codices and scores of handcrafted…
The Red Shack
The Red Shack
The red fishing shack is one of many fisherman's huts that dotted Pine Island Sound in Southwest Florida during much of the last century. Families of the fisherman lived in many…
The Chambered Nautilus
The chambered Nautilus’ home is one of the most beautiful shapes in all of nature. At least, in my opinion. Its perfect spiral has amazed mathematicians and scientists alike…
The Warrior Motel
How do you know? Along life’s journey, how do you know? Do you take the right fork on the road ahead or the left? And what lies just beyond that…
“High Life” ~ not so much
Shrimpers and most watermen, for that matter, are a tenacious, hardy bunch. For many, it has been a family way of life for generations. Salt water runs in their veins and thoughts leaving…
My Secret Garden
"My Secret Garden" is an imagined place. A place of solitude, a place for aloneness. A place to just be. To me, there are two sides to being alone. Loneliness is…
Idealizing the Idyllic
I discovered this small cottage just steps from the beach while exploring tiny Indian Rocks Beach on Florida's West Coast. This community of modest beach houses sprang up in the…
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