If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The engine rooms of the Titanic are fascinating and tell a poignant story of ambition and destruction. Bounce and Scooter are amazed by the sheer immensity. How can something this big be so easily destroyed?
Examining the varieties of fish, touching the leathery-spiny hides of baby sharks and avoiding the nipping claws of sand crabs make marine life accessible.
Small portholes in the penguin exhibit give Scooter the impression that he is inside the tank.
The (brainless) jellyfish exhibit pure poetry.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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He’s a cute kid but what happened to your daughters, they were beautiful as well, with the long brown hair and pretty faces! lovely girls on your blog, I miss them, are they on a trip?
Stunning images this must have been a wonderful outing.