Tag: UNESCO
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Keep Scrolling
How many times are we told to put down our phones and other devices and look instead out at the horizon, notice the natural world around us and to stop scrolling? If you read my blog regularly, I am also usually advocating exactly this! – Stop, notice and dwell in the natural world to retrieve…
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There is always something in the nothing
The beach today Sometimes we need to stop. The beach is a beautiful cradle for our souls, and sometimes we have to let it do that – cradle. So often I know I rush down, breathe deeply, march across the sand and back, am thankful for the pretty scenery feeling vaguely restored, and go home…
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A present for everyone
The beach today The end of another day. It started frosty, then rained, and after that, the sun peeked through to diffuse the dying of the day with gentle light: Just as the waves roll relentlessly, so the sky changes with each passing air current. How do we find peace in the constant tumbling change…
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An upside down day
The beach today It strikes me as a kind of upside down type of day: The sea is quiet and lying grey as a still backdrop while the sky above is full of rolling waves! Pleats of cloud gallop across the sky like a stormy sea, layers of colour highlighting their energy and the capture…
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No borders
The beach today Today was what I call a ‘no borders’ day; misty and grey with low-lying cloud so that it feels as if I am living inside a chalk or pastel impressionist painting. Boundaries are blotted, blurring the distinction between sea and sky, land and air, near and far, day and night, today and…
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Rockpool World
The beach today A spiky forest left behind after a high tide. What must it be like to have two totally different lives – standing tall and drying in the air, and then to feel weightless and float and flow under water….. I suppose we all have different lives rolled into one…. I so loved…
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A cheery ‘hello’ extra!
I was walking on the beach this morning and I saw this little fellow! I thought I would share it to give everyone the smile it gave me – are we grateful for the random flow and ebb of the tide or for an earlier morning walker who added the eye…? Either way, it is…
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Sand artists
The beach today On such a wide, open beach it is not hard to feel our ‘smallness’ in relation to sea and sky, but looking down, the sand shows us that we are not the smallest. There are some very tiny artists creating wonderful patterns right under our feet. Did you know? Although the wide…
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Sunset
The beach Nature’s gift, such beauty at the end of the day. Sunsets are always slightly different, a remix of oranges, pinks and red contrasted with the glassy blue of a night sea. They flare and glow with the spark and pzazz of a stage show, dramatic and showy, a glorious celebration of light. They…
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Finding space (on World Mental Health Day)
The Beach Today Sometimes all we need is a little space to ourselves. To hear ourselves breathe. To let our shoulders fold downwards, feel safe enough to close our eyes and let our mind spin out to sea, into the sky or anywhere other than rattling around our skulls…. Did you know? The beach environment…
Marine Moments 