by Laura Shepard Townsend | Uncategorized
I often describe the Destiny’s Consent series as a roadmap for women, those seekers, who get lost in the pursuit of their own lives. Angelica Grastende, a Roma woman, a gypsy, is marked at birth by the mark of a shuvani-healer. When a terrible misfortune occurs,...
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 | Uncategorized
November 2014 We were again in Costa Rica for our next three month vacation. Like the first time, we did not rent a car. But unlike before, we were not in a town, but midway between them, in Los Cedros. To get around, we would have to ride a local bus, an easy...
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...
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