by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog, musings
Searching for a solution to a problem, if I have to go over something more than once, much less over and over again, I am searching for a solution to a problem which has no solution. Then it is time for me to wait for the universe and its intervention. The solution...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog, Poems about Nature, Poetry
When I stop dreaming to waken in morning I go down to the sea to dream still There I fly In seas aglow with the breathing of goddesses and whales The ocean’s floor sambas into etched lines of splayed light. A small striped bass greets me familiar by wiggling its...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | costa rica, Blog, Blog on Event, Costa Rica, Costa Rica Book, Venice, California
For Michael, Costa Rica was a dream come true. Five years before on Valentine’s Day, we had visited a town called Samara located on the Nicoya Peninsula, an infamous blue zone, on the Pacific Ocean. Samara was stunning – horses galloped down the beach,...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog, costa rica, Costa Rica, Costa Rica Book
November 2013 Let me begin by saying that the furthest thing from my mind was leaving Venice, California. I was very happy there, especially as a writer. I was working on the local paper, “The Beachhead”; I was reading poems I had penned in The Rapp Salon, the monthly...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog, Destiny's Consent, Gypsies
It is the NEW YEAR and my email box is flooded with notices urging the judgement of my imperfect self and what I must buy to hasten my perfection. As an aside, nothing is offered for free and if so, only as a come on. They do not know what I know after my long...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
I woke this morning with the remnant of a dream surviving the transfer from sleep to my waking — from my psyche to my knowledge. In the dream, I jumped from a cliff into a river below, but way further out into a place unknown. As I traveled through the air, I...
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