Reflections

Observations and Emotional Connections to the Sea

Cabinet of Curiosities

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Year-End Reading: At the Fishhouses

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At The Fishhouses

by Elizabeth Bishop
Excerpt from "At the Fishhouses" from "The Complete Poems 1927-1979" by Elizabeth Bishop. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: Noonday, 1994.

Although it is a cold evening,
down by one of the fishhouses
an old man sits netting,
his net, in the gloaming almost invisible,
a dark purple-brown,

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Ocean Time

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Solastalgia, A Word for Change

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Contrarian

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Running Home

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World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide. Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects.

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Revelations by Salt

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World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide. Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects.

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