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ABC Islands Visit- Part V Bonaire

By jxmartin on Mon, 06 Jan 2025

ABC Islands Visit- Part V- Bonaire- Leeward Antilles Tuesday, December 26, 2024- Bonaire We were up by 6 A.M, prepped and readied to set out. We had...

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ABC Island Visit Part IV Curacao

By jxmartin on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

ABC Islands Visit- Part IV- Curacao Wed. December 25,2024- Christmas Day We were up and ready by 6:30 A.M. It was already 80 degrees and humid out...

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ABC Islands visit Part III

By jxmartin on Sat, 04 Jan 2025

ABC Islands Visit- Part III Tuesday, December 24,2024- Aruba- Leeward Antilles We were up by 7 A.M. It was already 86 degrees, hot and humid outside...

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ABC Islands visit Part II

By jxmartin on Fri, 03 Jan 2025

Visiting the ABC Islands Part II Sunday, December 22, 2024- At Sea off Cuba’s Coast We were up early at 6 A.M. It was cloudy, humid and 64 degrees...

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22 of my comments have received 22 Great Feedback votes

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Airy,

Posted on Sun, 07 Jul 2024

Airy,

I have always placed my faith in the common sense, decency and wisdom of the average voter. They have the right values and usualy follow through with them at the ballot box.

Now, I don't know what to make of the evil one's...

Posted in Agism or chicanery?

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We do Insert, but sometimes

Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024

We do Insert, but sometimes we forget "thingamajig." :(

JXM

Posted in Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.

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Interesting sketch, Paul. I

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

Interesting sketch, Paul. I am reminded of Wolfe's dictum, "you can't go home again." Principally, because it isn't there any more. The river of time has carried away alll traces of that remebered visage. New people and new lives inhabit the time...

Posted in The Other Side of Paradise

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Thoughtful piece, Penny. I

Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2023

Thoughtful piece, Penny. I could almost see the young lad materialize and talk with the young Miss. I wonder if she ever came back by herself to continue the conversation?

JXM

Posted in "Hug-a-lass"

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Great portrait of the lads

Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2023

Great portrait of the lads ata school, Paul. I could almost see Mr. Chips in the background, wishing the lads well.

JXM

Posted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)

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Interesting observation, Ewan

Posted on Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Interesting observation, Ewan, We explain their audacity and their clueless state of understanding abhorent behavior with the saying "You can't shame the shameless." It is an awful confluence of nuanced messianic vision, outsized egos and avarice...

Posted in Remembering John Fitzgerald Kennedy- 60 years later

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verbal portrait worthy of a Winslow Homer

Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022

Great verbal portrait, Paul. I could "see" what you described as well as feel the wind and the ocean spray sweeping across the moors on a chilly dusk. Winslow Homer tried to capture what you have written and did so artfully, as you have done. A...

Posted in The Artist of Swanage Downs

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I couldn't summarize it any

Posted on Sun, 29 May 2022

I couldn't summarize it any better, David.

Thanks,

JXM

Posted in Novel solutions on gun control

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David, Paul, Celtic Man,

Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022

David, Paul, Celtic Man,

Thank you all for taking the time to read and comment. I appreciate your comments in the spirit in which they were given.

JXM

Posted in Corona Log Entry 25/4/22

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Jen,

Posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2022

Jen,

Thank you for ethereal visions of a land of make believe, that we all wish we could visit. Sugar plums abounding in small minds, faeries alight on the wind. Butterflies, colorful and flutttering, ditsracting to the eyes. It is...