And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

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The Talisman ~ Alexander Pushkin
Where the sea forever dances
Over lonely cliff and dune,
Where sweet twilight's vapor glances
In a warmer-glowing moon,
Where with the seraglio's graces
Daylong toys the Mussulman,
An enchantress 'mid embraces
Handed me a talisman

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Wind and sand create waves
erasing the footprints we leave
and the castles we build with our lives.
Only memories remain
until they, too...vanish.
~ William Blake

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Sea Clouds

Darkness comes early
The sun struggles to break through
Obscured by sea clouds

Words and photo by S.W. Cosgrove

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Riding surf's edge

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"Bright lights, big city
Gone to my baby's head...."
~ Jimmy Reed

Seattle evening from the aft deck of the departing Bainbridge Island ferry on Elliott Bay.

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#cityscape

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this.
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.
~ William Shakespeare

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...not all those who wander are lost
the old that is strong does not wither
deep roots are not reached by the frost....
J. R. R. Tolkien

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#winterphoto
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Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic ~ Van Morrison

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#oceanbeach
#walkingonthewesternedge
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

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#philosophy
#simoneweil

The morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness....
~William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Morning light at solstice, Brittany, France

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Reeds on a frozen pond at sunset.

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#nature

Autumn clouds in the Pacific Northwest
Photo: S.W. Cosgrove

La Vicomté-sur-Rance, Brittany, France