Coastal Notes

little bits of this and that

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  • To Every Season

    Having literally abandoned google for chatGPT, I have recently been unsatisfied with the AI responses — authoritative in voice but frequently incorrect in content. This has nothing to do with today’s Note except that I went to google to learn more about Sweet Pea (the plant) and was quite surprised to learn that the annual… Read more

  • Worry

    I have always been a happy person. When I was a kid, people called me “Mr. Smiley.” I am definitely a “cup 7/8s full” sort of person. I think of myself as resilient, buoyant, optimistic. But I get down like everybody else. The world is a hard place to be and so it is in… Read more

  • Look at the world around us

    Near the coast we can tell the temperature by the color of the sky. The paler blue the sky the more “marine layer” is present – cooler, damper air making the blue look bright and faded. On particularly cool days, especially in the afternoons, the sky can be almost a glossy gray-white with barely a… Read more