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The Monthly Planet - Nov. 1979 (First Issue)

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Shadows on Teddy Bear Gene Myer

Teddy Bear Cove is a altwa.t r beach

I Ue on a bles d beach fi•e ly reaping the sun's gifts.

As accompaniment to

with two sandy unbathing areas isoiated by a rocky point of madrona and fir trees.

the ol-ar symphony piaying on my back,

This point shel.ters the beach from pre-

fZute and guitar music echo from the base

vaiZing winds, and has tidepool and

of a 51TlalZ cliff:

0

orchestration for the

spontaneous choreography of three young chi'ldPen intent on discovering tidepooZ

culpturcd rocks for diving into the

deep cZear water. T ddy Bear Cove is only two and a haZf

An idyZZic atmosphere p 1'Vades thi smaZZ beach:

never an unfriendly ex-

from the hustle of highLJO.ys.

This and

Th sun stroked firmly., unrelentingI gave in

to

the uperior force and

uddenly my textbook dropped down fiat on the sand.

o pPoblem-just mov over into the sun. Even

b

t of Qu

door of an

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n

h k

dormitory room.

not

on th

door w rn

ing

in id

Th

m 11 of s

of

nv room nt i

be intact.

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y

paradise l,}()UZd

Le s regu Zar than the un, but ab le piace a perma nt shadm,J over thi paradi

are th

lu tuations of he

nt reaZ e tat market. Bar Cove i

or sale.

Teddy

A

ubtl

1

b

r ri

horn

for

to the public, which ha used Teddy Bar It wa with much pring

when it heard that Teddy Bear Cove was up for ale.

-top

Thi J600

th

or

W st rn

ud nt .

w y thy think

nd

It prob bly

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hand Bon over Teddy Bar Rainbo-w Vi ion in Carver G Wi Zd and Woo ly S ak S ar hin for y Spac Om ga utba k FZ

ff c

ct.

e 3-

Shad(JI,)

it?

clos d

of "hormoniou" b -

if it -were to go down aZtogether, I

knew it would return.

th

are privately own d and ar inaccess1,ble

I woke to find my paradise dist;w>bed: alarm that a group organiz d la. t a cool, creeping hadm,J had engulfed e.

Th

UnfortunateZy, aZZ such ub titutes

Cove for many year .

I dozed.

M rk Canrigh

much more is what wouZd be need d tor -

change, aUXJ.ys an open sharing and re pect. piace Teddy Bear Cove.

Zy .

Omega

ile from centraZ Bellingham and ecluded

wand rs.

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