I am sitting on a log in front of a driftwood fort on the Fourth of July. I am eating a modest breakfast.<\/p>\n
It is morning. I just built the fort. It took two hours, a good workout of the body and creative mind.<\/p>\n
I am surrounded by dozens of bumblebees feeding on the purple flowers of a beach plant. Perhaps I should know the name of this plant, but I don’t.<\/p>\n
There is something incredibly comforting in knowing that one is surrounded by bumblebees at the beach.<\/p>\n
Trucks blow by on the wet sand at 50-60 miles an hour. Their drivers will never notice bumblebees at the beach and that makes me sad. Everyone should see the drunken dance of the bumblebee at the beach, with a driftwood fort behind and the ocean in front. (Oh yes, throw in 20 pelicans, too.)<\/p>\n
My mind returns to another fort, one I visited yesterday at dawn. Inside one of the containers, I discovered a message that was written to me, but not addressed to me. It was an appreciative message and I was fairly awestruck to receive it. Thank you. You signed your name and I think I know who you are, but perhaps not. I hope one of the fortune cookies I left behind brought you good fortune.<\/p>\n
There is no around me for miles. The drivers in the trucks don’t count. They aren’t really here.<\/p>\n
(If you found this post enjoyable, thought provoking or enlightening, please consider supporting a writer at work by making a financial contribution to this blog or by purchasing an NSP book.) <\/i><\/p>\n\n I am sitting on a log in front of a driftwood fort on the Fourth of July. I am eating a modest breakfast. It is morning. I just built the fort. It took two hours, a good workout of the body and creative mind. I am surrounded by dozens of bumblebees feeding on the purple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,32],"tags":[834,47,754,48,13],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driftwood-forts","category-meditations","category-oregon-beaches","tag-4th-of-july","tag-driftwood-forts","tag-fort-messages","tag-oregon-beaches","tag-oregon-coast","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}