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
Installment 1 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...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog, Destiny's Consent, Gypsies, Magic, On Writing, Story Telling, The Other World, The Rom
Many years ago, my psyche delivered a story to me; I woke with rudimentary threads beguiling — oracles, Venice, gypsies, water, tarot cards. Storytelling is an ancient art, the psyche weaving happenstance and folk wisdom to electrify those listening. When I...
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