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Sarah Joy's avatar

Wonderful essay. I live in this area. It really is that magical!

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Chris Buczinsky's avatar

You must have done some fine things in your previous lives to have landed this life in such an amazing place.

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Sarah Joy's avatar

This comment has stopped me in my tracks. I’ve been down a rabbit hole (of my own making) for the last few months thinking on all the harm I must have done in previous lives to have gotten me here, arms full with different bundles of grief. Yours is such a wildly different perspective that I hardly know how to digest it. Thank you 🙏 ✨

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Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

My wife and I used to live in Rockaway Beach for many years, I did a lot of work for a man who owned a kite shop. If you are ever coming back to the area, hit me up, we can show you around.

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Nicole Lise Feingold's avatar

I love this! Good days aren’t meant to be kept but experienced. Beautifully written!

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Holly's avatar

Your last line. OMG.

I have walked Cannon beach and my experience was magical..but maybe not this magical. Maybe it was the company...or something else in the air that day....

Absolutely gorgeous.

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

"The best days are not shells to pocket; they are stones to skip on the water—just to watch the shattering of the light." Wow!! What a gorgeous, gorgeous sentence... Along with many others in this wonderful piece.

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Chris Buczinsky's avatar

Thanks, Lizzie.

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Valkyrie's avatar

Love this very much.

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Kat Rigel's avatar

This…all of this is going to be among my thoughts for some time I expect.

Your way with words is something else, Chris.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…that rock rocks…little moments one at a time become momentous…

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