Back from visiting the coast with my beast-friend. (I turned a photo of her into a “watercolor” using the Waterlogue app.) Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war… Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or ha

True North We are not only stars, love, but the very earth spinning beneath our feet. The young, sharp-edged, glacial peaks, the humble nursery of oak and mushroom, moss and lichen, where humans neglect to tread. It’s true, these atoms of ours navigate the light-pricked, indigo sky, strewn by gods and goddesses, triangulated by stories of ancient myth. Their heroes and monsters hold the course for Homer, Cook and all those in-between, as ships turn wheel and rudder, ar

True North We are not only stars, love, but the very earth spinning beneath our feet. The young, sharp-edged, glacial peaks, the humble nursery of oak and mushroom, moss and lichen, where humans neglect to tread. It’s true, these atoms of ours navigate the light-pricked, indigo sky, strewn by gods and goddesses, triangulated by stories of ancient myth. Their heroes and monsters hold the course for Homer, Cook and all those in-between, as ships turn wheel and rudder, ar

Some say the sea lies beyond, others, the sky. It is not for me to say. I only know, there’s something out there. The fog horn warns of it. Its luminal echo approaches, clasps every branch of the solemn garden. There are rumors a bridge lies just west, connecting soft-shouldered land, a graceful arc pinning down the liminal bodies of underwater worlds and salt-ripe air. Shall we step off and see? #narrowsbridge #sea #fog #Water #bridge #chushcoff #washingt

Some say the sea lies beyond, others, the sky. It is not for me to say. I only know, there’s something out there. The fog horn warns of it. Its luminal echo approaches, clasps every branch of the solemn garden. There are rumors a bridge lies just west, connecting soft-shouldered land, a graceful arc pinning down the liminal bodies of underwater worlds and salt-ripe air. Shall we step off and see? #narrowsbridge #sea #fog #Water #bridge #chushcoff #washingt

The Mermaid Thessaloniki Necklace. I made this for the Maritime Art Show in Gig Harbor. It was so much fun putting it together I don’t know if I can let it go. Ingredients: shells, foreign coins, sea glass, detachable starfish, yeah, that’s what I said, detachable, and a message in a bottle with sand from the Malibu Beach where Rockford Files was filmed (I’m a bit of a fan). #mermaid #sea #AutumnsEnd #jewelry #necklace #RockfordFiles

The Mermaid Thessaloniki Necklace. I made this for the Maritime Art Show in Gig Harbor. It was so much fun putting it together I don’t know if I can let it go. Ingredients: shells, foreign coins, sea glass, detachable starfish, yeah, that’s what I said, detachable, and a message in a bottle with sand from the Malibu Beach where Rockford Files was filmed (I’m a bit of a fan). #mermaid #sea #AutumnsEnd #jewelry #necklace #RockfordFiles