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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
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dormitory room.
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of
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be intact.
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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.
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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.
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w y thy think
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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.
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ile from centraZ Bellingham and ecluded
wand rs.
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