37TH DREAM: Oceanic climate / Patience

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Oceanic climate / Patience

The photo above was taken from Marine Park on the south side of Bellingham on a cool and cloudy part of the first day of summer, near the Great Blue Heron rookery.

4 comments:

robin andrea said...: Wow, AM, that's an incredible video. I love the transitions (how did you do that?), and the song is beautiful. Excellent!; June 24, 2012 at 8:17 AM
am said...: That video is wonderful, isn't it?

I didn't make that video (-:; June 24, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Goat said...: Oh well, it's still a great video! Love the neck arch. Herons and their relatives are common here too, as well as home in Queensland. They never let me get close enough for a decent photo without a zoom, however.; June 24, 2012 at 3:17 PM
bev said...: Love the photo of the herons out on the flats. They are such elegant but also seemingly primordial birds. They fly up the brook beside my place and fish as a spot where the water splits to flow by a little island and tumbles over a miniature waterfall.; June 25, 2012 at 6:40 AM

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The photograph currently at the top of my blog was taken on May 8, 2016, at West Beach in Deception Pass State Park in Island County of Washington State. For years after leaving Northern California in 1973, I had a recurring dream that there was an ocean beach not too far south of Bellingham. My joy at discovering that beach in my dreams was offset by my grief that no such beach existed when I woke up. On May 8, 2016, I visited West Beach for the first time with a friend who also grew up in Northern California. West Beach is the beach I dreamed about for so many years. May 8, 2016, was the 29th anniversary of the beginning of my healing in connection with bulimia, anorexia, alcoholism, and the beginning of actively using the creative gifts I had been born with. On May 8, 1987, I spent the entire day driving south on Highway 1, frequently gazing at the Pacific Ocean from Mendocino County to Santa Cruz County when the ocean was visible from the road.

"OLD GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY" (the earliest name for my blog) came to life in early December of 2006 so that I could post a 42-year retrospective of my paintings and drawings and through that action, create a new relationship with the day the man I loved returned from Vietnam in December 1971. For a while (sometime after spring of 2008, which is when he died) my blog was "TALKING 37TH DREAM WITH RAINBOW (RUMORS OF PEACE)". For a number of years, it's been "TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)." As of April 12, 2017 my blog is now titled "37TH DREAM / TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE/LOOKING UP)".

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