seeing the bones of this ship on the shores of lake michigan
washed up on the camp arcadia beach
and wondering how they came to be here.
—
“the sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning:
we are all in the same boat.
-jacques yves cousteau
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http://www.arcadiami.com/index.php/hidden-exhibits/hidden-shipwrecks/hidden-minnehaha
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credits: maritime history of the great lakes, bowling green state university, camp arcadia
there is one spectacle grander than the sea,
that is the sky;
there is one spectacle grander than the sky,
that is the interior of the soul.
-victor hugo
—
Arcadia Dunes, C.S. Mott Nature Preserve, on the shores of Lake Michigan, hiking Old Baldy Trail – October 2020
a blustery autumn day
on the shores of lake michigan
the wind and the sea so full of life.
—
as wave is driven by wave
and each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead
so time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
always, forever and new, what was before
is left behind: what never was is now:
and every passing moment is renewed.
-ovid
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lake michigan, arcadia, michigan, usa – october 2020
even brave dragons
have their moments
when they sit down
between the goal posts
the football sits down
on the ground
and
they are just done.
—
“by letting it go it all gets done.
the world is won by those who let it go.
but when you try and try
the world is beyond the winning.”
-lao tzu
image credit: pictoral arts journal
when i was a little girl
one of my sisters used to bite her nails
when i’d look out the window
see the sliver of a moon
i thought that was her nail up there
wanting endlessly
to think of a way to get it back for her.
—
“it’s like we’re on a rocket ship that we were just painting,
and suddenly it took off
and we’re holding onto the ship with our fingernails.
– Esteban Contreras
oh, we all have those days
you start out by not having your water bottle
so you get a special halloween cup of water
it gets tipped over when you are cutting
you go to get a paper towel to dry it up
but you come back with what you can find
toilet paper
that gets wet and mushy
the extra part rolls out on the floor
your coat falls off of the back of your chair
the paper you were cutting gets soaked and chopped into little pieces
because you are really good at cutting
you can’t find the cap to your marker
because it rolled off your table
now it might dry up
all you have left are the dark color crayons
you don’t get time to finish your cheez-its
because you are trying to clean up
the ones that are left get wet and are mushy
you go out to recess and run and run and go on a pirate adventure
your teachers love you anyway and tell you it happens to them too
and it’s all okay.
—
“there’s no limit to how complicated things can get,
on account of one thing always leading to another.”
-E. B. White
—
there came a time, he realized,
when the strangeness of everything
made it increasingly difficult
to realize the strangeness of anything.
-james hilton, lost horizon
happy canadian thanksgiving
thanks for being a superhero of a neighbor
“i think maybe, if i could be a canadian super hero,
i’d have some kind of freezing power
and some sort of maple syrup weapon.
could be a little sticky.
-nathan fillion
—
Credits: Wikipedia, Marvel Comics
Captain Canuck is a Canadian comic book superhero named for former Vancouver Canucks Captain, Trevor Linden, nicknamed Captain Canuck. Created by cartoonist Ron Leishman and artist/writer Rchard Comely, the original Captain Canuck first appeared in Captain Canuck #1 (July 1975). The series was the first successful Canadian comic book since the collapse of the nation’s comic book industry following WWII.
Three characters have worn the maple leaf costume of Captain Canuck. The first Captain Canuck patrolled Canada in the then-future year of 1993, where “Canada had become the most powerful country in the world”. He was the costumed agent of the “Canadian International Security Organization” (CISO). In 1995, Captain Canuck was honored with a Canadian postage stamp.
CAPTAIN CANADA – Courtesy of Marvel Comics
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