Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
(Michael Caine)
image: Crepuscular Rays, Stow Lake, Golden Gate Park, Mila Zinkova
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About Me
- Christie
- Creative writer - Traveler - Archaeologist manque - Ardent lover of the play of light, the journeyings of time, things ephemeral and ancient
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