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Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle
My father was a Naval Officer. He served in three wars, and raised four children with the same courage and sacrifice he brought to the service. In 1960 we lived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba with coconut trees in the yard, bouganvillea bushes lining the streets, and pineapples growing underfoot. We fished in the surf, and…
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Trillium

Trillium
The Trillium flower is associated with purity.   With a root similar to ginseng, trillium is facing an endangered future. It grows less and less frequently in our rich, dark, and damp woods and rain forests. But it grows here, in our woods, where the Earth energies are still alive and accessible. We have even…
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432

432
image by cymatics.org   There was a time when people tuned their instruments differently than we do today. Before electronics, people relied on the feeling of intonation, and the gift of perfect pitch. Early music was written to be performed in a tuning (intervals of cycles per second known as Hertz) which was different than the standard…
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Calanais

Calanais
Older than moss, hands stacking the stones. Our wedding was in Scotland, in an ancient hunting village on the edge of the Isle of Skye. It felt at once surreal and perfectly at home. We were very much at home among the highlands, and we thought of making a new life there. It was years…
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