This new LuciWest site has been a work-in-progress long enough, and it doesn’t seem I’ll ever get it “just right”. Therefore, I’m now officially declaring it launched – or relaunched.
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Introspection, Reflection and Need for Action – by a White German Expat in America
During the anguish of these days, something comes through clearly: it’s not enough to think one is not a racist, one has to be a proactive anti-racist. And that starts with some introspection and reflection.
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Favorite Songs: 1st 1/4 of 2020 Mix Tape
With some technical (new website!) and global pandemic delays, here is my selection of favorites songs from the first quarter of 2020.
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Featured Photo: Roseate Spoonbill
This Roseate Spoonbill, I photographed on my 2020 birthday in April.
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Refreshed
Testing the air and soon the water.
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Favorite Songs: 4th 1/4 of 2019 Mix Tape
In some ways, the last favorite song mix tape of the year is usually the most interesting one to me. I usually get to add quite a few last minute songs to it as I discover great songs on other people’s best-of-the year lists.
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Jumping Over My Own Shadow: My First Indie Market
In German, we have an expression that translates to “jumping over one’s own shadow” and means to do something that doesn’t come natural to you and is unsettling, even scary to you. It’s usually something that is not scary or even a big deal to others – but just outside of your personal comfort zone or natural behavior.
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Favorite Songs: 3rd 1/4 of 2019 Mix Tape
Another quarter of a year came and went. A lot happened, a lot didn’t happen. There were songs, there was silence. More laughter, tears, outrage, thoughts, talks, yearning, gratitude, hope, disappointment, several road trips (one especially epic), sooo many beach walks and beach sunsets, a lot of work and never enough dancing. Here are my favorite songs from July, August and September 2019.
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Favorite Songs: 2nd 1/4 of 2019 Mix Tape
Alright, I’m finally officially not making CDs for my quarterly favorite song mixes anymore… it’s all just playlists from now on. And since I now have the freedom to make the quarterly playlists as long as I want to… I decided to restrict them to the length of a 90-minute cassette tape.
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Photos from the Weeki Wachee River and Springs State Park (Florida)
One of the best places in Florida: Weeki Wachee Springs State Park and the Weeki Wachee River and its manatees.
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Spring Blooms and Chicks
This spring, I got to travel to North Carolina and various places around Florida. Naturally, I took lots of photos. Over the next few weeks, I plan on publishing several posts (either here or over on Happier.Place) dedicated to specific locations, e.g., Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Favorite Songs: 1st 1/4 of 2019 – #MusicMonday
How is it May already? Easy: time keeps on ticking into the future. Sigh. Anyway, here’s my “mix tape” with my few favorite songs from January, February and March 2019.
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Photos of Florida Gulf Coast Birds
Since moving to the Florida Gulf Coast in June 2018, I’ve found real pleasure in admiring and photographing the local birds. At times, it seems that my camera is drawn mostly to waterbirds – but then I spent over an hour just standing near a bald eagle’s nest in hopes of seeing a white head.
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Favorite Songs: 4th 1/4 of 2018 – #MusicMonday
Favorites songs of 4th quarter of 2018.
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Favorite Songs from the 3rd 1/4 of 2018 – #MusicMonday
Favorite songs of the 3rd quarter of 2018.
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The End of the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn
Photos from the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.
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