by LDUS2530 | May 27, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
Your Mood and the Water I like to go down to the water, any water, when I’m feeling stressed. So many of us do and it always seems to help. I’m so curious about why that should be. Can those drifting tides and ripples moving speedily along the water wash your cares...
by LDUS2530 | May 20, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
Listening to the Water Is the reverberating crash and boom of an ocean wave soothing to you? Some people would love to live by the ocean. One friend remarked that she had “the best night’s sleep ever” by the sea. To some, that incessant thud is just annoying. Some...
by LDUS2530 | May 13, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
My friend Christina Daub, poet and professor of creative writing sent me this “whole little perfect poem”. I felt this small oil painting with its big insistent boom went with the words. Click here to view see it on my site...
by LDUS2530 | May 6, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
Each visitor arriving at the beach does the exact same thing. Stepping over the sand to view the wide expanse of water, they breathe in and then let out a small sigh. There it is! Undeniably magnificent, the ocean completely arrests our senses. Always slightly...
by LDUS2530 | Apr 29, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
Does this wave look familiar? It is probably the most famous and extraordinary of all Japanese art, created as a woodblock print almost 200 years ago. Today we see it everywhere, printed on T-shirts, calendars, coffee mugs. This image has power. The wave is a...
by LDUS2530 | Apr 22, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
Have you ever noticed the Moon out in the daytime? I always marveled at this since as a child I was under the impression that the moon comes out at night. Not entirely true. When you look at the Moon you are seeing the bright light of the Sun reflecting off it. Two...
by LDUS2530 | Apr 16, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
Sketching in pencil by the side of the beach takes me back in time. I feel connected to the art of the past. After all, making marks on a surface is one of the most basic human expressions of communication. We have drawings in caves and on rocks dating back to...
by LDUS2530 | Apr 8, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
Sometimes there is a haze of blue humidity hanging over the bay. It’s a soft light but also persistently bright all in the same instant. Take a moment to watch it and it appears to shift right before your eyes. This morning there was a veil of cerulean haze...
by LDUS2530 | Apr 1, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
When you get down to the ocean you never quite know what to expect. Will it be peaceful and flat, or rough and churned up? The sea with its changeable and unpredictable moods will confound you every time. It doesn’t seem to matter what kind of temper the water...
by LDUS2530 | Mar 25, 2013 | Breath of Salt Air
Living by the water all year round in New England has its challenges. There is the flooding, the Nor’Easters, piercing wet weather and whipping winds. But after a dismal unrelenting gray day, very often a mini miracle takes place. It happened just now. The sun...
