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Winter is a good time for friends and holiday cheer. 15 1
All men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them. - Leonard Cohen, Suzanne 15 0
Stopping by Hell's half acre on the Angelique. #windjammer #sailing #mainecruise #fatherandsontrip #threedayeffect #angelique 14 0
Sailing past Stonington on the Angelique. #windjammer #sailing #mainecruise #stonington #threedayeffect #angelique 10 1
Sailing the mid coast in Maine on the Angelique spending three days out in Nature. #windjammer #sailing #mainecruise #fatherandsontrip #threedayeffect #angelique #literarytravel #literarytraveler #onemorninginmaine 25 3
A great article from Sherri Harvey about .... The man on Huntington Dog Beach throwing the ball for his yellow labs only has one useable arm. I watch him out of the corner of my eye because I’m morbidly curious but I don’t want to stare. He somehow still manages to pick up a retriever toy on a string and throw it with an underarm twist. As he throws with his good arm, the other arm hangs off his shoulder like a dead weight, swinging around on its own accord from the gravity of his movement alone. I notice as well that his leg on that left side also swings out of sync with the other leg. Still, his shirtless body reveals lean, taut muscles, despite being mid-fifties, a few years older than me. He’s runner-thin and his arm muscles gleam and his abs ripple. His attentive labs dote on his every move. One lab dives into the water, grabs to toy and drops it in front of him. It’s fascinating watching him but I don’t want to appear rude.....read more https://www.literarytraveler.com/articles/one-small-crack-by-sherri-harvey/ 19 0
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I just finished reading and listening to the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman and I am hooked. I listen to the book with my 10 year old son and we really enjoyed it. He likes when there's a full cast reading and he seems to get into the books a lot that way. Unless the reader is amazing of course. It was my first Gaiman book  although I've seen him on TV and in advertisements for the master class. I thought it was a great story and the idea that the half living and dead could raise a boy up from infancy was novel. One thing that stayed with me, well two things really was that both the living and the dead had good and bad but the good outweigh the bad overwhelmingly and Bod was able to rely and trust and love the members of the graveyard, and they loved him back. The book starts off and then slowly builds up and it took a while for my son to get into it but once he did he was totally hooked. Gaiman creates a world that pulls you in. One of the favorite parts for me was watching Bod grow up and become a clever and brave young man. Gaiman describes in the afterward about how he got the idea for the story while he was taking his child to ride their triycle in a graveyard near their small apartment and how he stared at the gravestones and tried to read the names and then he came home and wrote a little about that experience. But he didn't think he was a good enough writer to write the whole story. So he put it away for a few years and then I took it out again but still he wasn't good enough in his mind. But then after 10 years he actually said to himself I'm not going to get any better as a writer or I'm as good as I'm going to get. And then he wrote the book. So I think the lesson for me in the book is that goodness exists in any form of darkness. And that we're all probably as good as we're going to get so don't put off the thing you want to do. #thegraveyardbook #neilgaiman #whatiamreading #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookideas #authorsiwanttomeet #authorsiwanttointerview 18 3