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Active Shooter

Sometimes a walk on the boards or beach is therapeutic, medicinal for me. How about you?

I walk and bike our boardwalk and beach often. But lately it’s with a greater imperative than in the past. I have a need escape the sounds and photos of the TV shooting machine-gun fire of reports of yet another shooting in a school, mall, church, street or whatever.

Madness.

Against this backdrop, the bliss of the ocean’s edge is welcome balm to me and I expect for you, if you do it. The boardwalk too has it’s medicine.

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It’s about paying attention, seeing the beauty of everything that’s in the panorama before me; sometimes isolating individual parts of it, zooming in with my eyes…and camera.

But in my latest blog post I have some suggestions for potential mass shooters. Maybe if they or their families read it, it might just make a difference, perhaps in just one of them. That would be a start.

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And America would love him for it.

Be well,
Leebythesea

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