The lighting was a challenge, but the photograph depicts two women, one American and one Nicaraguan, in the doorway. Despite differences of nationality, language, and life experience, women are seldom at a loss for conversation.
I know what you mean. I have fond memories of a woman teaching me to play dominoes. I stayed with her while in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We did not speak the same language and she was probably 40 years older than me. But we had a good time. And I am sure that by the end of my stay with her we understood what the other was saying. Sounds like the trip to Nicaragua was very meaningful for those who went.
Gannets are enormous and sleek creamy-white seabirds, with black wingtips, yellow heads and necks, and startlingly outlined eyes. They nest on the rocky cliffs of the European and North American coasts of the North Atlantic and, once grown, spend their days sailing across the ocean. The acrobatics by which they make their living ~ steep climbs into the air and speedy plunges straight into the sea ~ are rivaled only by those of pelicans.
What better metaphor for a sweeping search of one's life choices and opportunities than a gannet extended above the waves, a regal and yet restless surveyor of the vast ocean surface? The gannet reminds us that life is an adventure in both beauty and profound unease, and that the sea itself is limitless in its textures and possibilities.
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I know what you mean. I have fond memories of a woman teaching me to play dominoes. I stayed with her while in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We did not speak the same language and she was probably 40 years older than me. But we had a good time. And I am sure that by the end of my stay with her we understood what the other was saying. Sounds like the trip to Nicaragua was very meaningful for those who went.
this picture is a kind of a poem.
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