"The eye has to travel." The eye has to travel, in order to observe how best to hold the things we love,  much the way nature does.
The eye has to travel, in order to consider the wayward journey of things not of one's land.
Not to judge, but to remember that there are forces more enormous, more powerful and further beyond our control than the minor acts of what are first assumed to be irresponsibility. And to also remember that we are all guilty of these accumulations, these small, yet mindless acts of discarding.
The eye has to travel, inward, in order to solve the challenge of preserving the things we love.
Not because of some need for nostalgia. Or sentimentality. But because these objects deserve reverence.
The things we find deserve to be held. Even if for a short time. Even if they are ugly. Even if the task involved with some of them feels insurmountable.
Because it is through this act of holding that we learn and teach and discover the most basic lessons of responsibility.  Summer-long beach clean up, 2014. Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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L. Beatty
12/22/2014 03:44:10 am
You've made my Christmas much more meaningful. Your children are being raised the way all children should be. Thanks for your help in preserving the shores for all of us. God bless you & yours. 12/25/2014 11:21:11 pm
Thank you all for your kind words about our family's summer "work." Someone recently asked if we get paid to do this...no. It is a passion. Hearing my 2 children seriously discuss what to purchase this winter based on the "the packaging that could hurt the sea animals" is payment enough. 12/26/2014 09:57:07 am
Velma--I'm thrilled you wandered over to my site. Thank you for your kind words and I really hope you'll wander back soon! XO Amy Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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Amy MeissnerArtist in Anchorage, Alaska, sometimes blogging about the collision of history, family & art, with the understanding that none exists without the other. 
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