{"id":3016,"date":"2015-02-18T22:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T03:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2015-02-19T07:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:03:25","slug":"3016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"Each turn…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You know how they used to put those special prizes in the bottom of the boxes of Cracker Jacks?\u00a0 Well… today… I felt like I was eating one gigantic box of Cracker Jacks, and I kept getting special prize after special prize.<\/p>\n

Some days, I have to struggle to come up with an Evening Post.
\nBut today, there are just so\u00a0 many things I want to tell you about.\u00a0 There were so many little happenings… here and there.\u00a0 But each one seemed to feel like these little miracles.<\/p>\n

At first, I wanted to write about\u00a0 Ash Wednesday.\u00a0 Then, there was a huge pyramid on the beach… among other wonders.\u00a0 Like families, with lots of sweet kids.\u00a0 Energetic kids from all around the world.
\nThere were also shells on the beach.\u00a0 Every day this is true, but today especially.\u00a0 Coolio Shells.\u00a0\u00a0 Amidst all of it… I encountered a Stalker… Photo-Bomber type.<\/p>\n

I ran into the lady at the grocery again.\u00a0 She bought me Readers… which was another part of the story.\u00a0 Tonight…. We had a fabulous dinner at the Lighthouse.\u00a0 And so many other things.\u00a0\u00a0 Even the Karaoke People were ALMOST singing in key.<\/p>\n

But….. today….\u00a0\u00a0 I met a Seagull.\u00a0 As much as anyone can meet a Seagull, I suppose.<\/p>\n

I was walking along the beach, just to stretch my legs. Holy smokes…this bird could dance.\u00a0 In mid-air.\u00a0 It was athletic, and acrobatic, and graceful, and beautiful.\u00a0 It was fast and slow.\u00a0 At times it would sail, and ride the wind.\u00a0 At other times, that bird would make a quick move, to launch downward, or change course, and flip around.\u00a0\u00a0 Or stop, midair.<\/p>\n

That gull would dive and descend, with such stealth and precision….. and lightning speed.\u00a0 And then…. the full body splash into the water.\u00a0 And each time, it would come up with a fish in its mouth.\u00a0 A Golden Catch. It was incredible to watch.<\/p>\n

It felt like me and the bird were the only ones\u00a0 around for mile and miles on that lone.\u00a0\u00a0 Then…. tears come to my eyes.<\/p>\n

I thanked it immensely.\u00a0 I told it out loud of its magnificence.\u00a0 I said that if I had had a camera I would try to capture its beauty.<\/p>\n

Later in the day… I walked that same stretch of beach.\u00a0 This time with a camera… to capture photos of small shell.<\/p>\n

That gull came back.\u00a0 And danced again.\u00a0\u00a0 That rhythm and beauty could not transcend to one still photo.\u00a0 I stood and watched again.<\/p>\n

“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”\u00a0 –\u00a0 George Colman<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 You know how they used to put those special prizes in the bottom of the boxes of Cracker Jacks?\u00a0 Well… today… I felt like I was eating one gigantic box of Cracker Jacks, and I kept getting special prize after special prize. Some days, I have to struggle to come up with an Evening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}