The Ocean at 6:45 on July 12, 2014

When I was a child there were seahorses in the waters of this beach and my family use to bring me often, as I got older I stopped seeing them completely. Back then there were no homeless people sleeping on the beach, maybe there were but not in the numbers that there is now. It is overpopulation and people that don’t fit in. The retired Jewish population lived on the back when I was a child and the art deco hotels was abandoned and dilapidated. The ocean seemed near the hotels. I had heard that the ocean met the hotels at the 40’s when the art deco hotels were at their heights, back then one saw multitudes of seahorses, but I wouldn’t know---I met this ocean decades later, and a decade later the sea life was totally gone. So here is the ocean at 6:45—enjoy…it was a beautiful morning. I wasn’t on the beach all day but just thirty minutes. I named this blog after those seahorses. 

Key Biscayne with Fountain Pen

There is nothing that I love more, besides playing music or visiting natural reserves and the sea of course, than writing with my fountain pens. In this instance I bring my cheap collection of plastics Lamys that I bough at the art store. I use to paint and draw and mostly I loved doing watercolours. There was a period of my life that I wasn't doing music, though that is hard to believe, and I had plenty of time in college doing my essays and art. I lived in a very colourful nature filled area -- that has disappeared. And even further back it was even more incredible but people have little idea of what they lost to silly overcrowding. I bring my pens with books and write for hours and walk the surf. If I go with someone I usually don't bring those things, so there is a good thing to being alone and being with company too. I love Key Biscayne that is very near. I use to work in that area too, but it definitely was better back then. I never brought an instrument though I have thought of bring a ukulele all my instruments are expensive and haven't fixed the less expensive ones. What I come back home is great poetry and one can look at it, rewrite it, but it is always fun like a moment photograph of that experience. (The picture was a few weeks ago when I was last there.) 

Ukulele is the trend

I have seen lots of girls playing ukulele there at the mall or especially in school. If the instrument seems unique I give it a try. Maybe this place one day will be like Hawaii? well not too much, but the ukulele is a great small instrument and you can bring it anywhere especially in travel even smaller than the mandolin, I hope this trend continues: makes me inspired to play mine!