Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Harns Marsh December 19, 2023

Monday, December 18, 2023

Fort Myers Beach December 18, 2023

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Six Mile Cypress Slough December 17, 2023

Friday, December 15, 2023

an unfinished story

An unbelievable story if taken literally

An epic adventure of an unlikely hero

With an unshakable belief in a better world

Undeterred by a series of errors


Mistakenly transformed into a donkey

Then into a fish swallowed by a whale

Then into a crow repeatedly told

What they seek is not possible


At long last finding where it exists

Facing the choice to stay or go back

Perhaps preferring to return home

Left to the reader to write the ending


So I followed along in the book

A work of fiction weaving five plot lines

An entertaining tale of improbable events 

Until I realized the connection 


With my daughter who was herself reading it

Who is far away now in her extended travels

Who recommended the narrative to me

That speaks to the decision she will make


At the end of a year of exploring far and wide

With the knowledge of what else there is

She and her partner soon must determine

Where they want to be and what they will do