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Dr. P-J's Blog

Missing the West Coast

6/15/2022

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Missing the West Coast
by Shelley Pineo-Jensen, Ph.D.

The Coast of the Pacific Northwest is my home. I moved out to the Eastern Seaboard to be useful to my children, but the bulk of my days are spent just with my lovely husband, living in a climate I find uncomfortable with scenery that pales in comparison to that of my home.

I want to breath the air of that part of the West Coast that exists between the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean and the crestline of the coastal range, preferably in Oregon. I long for the place where a stiff ocean breeze blows through town, perhaps loaded with rain, where it’s a 15-minute drive to a beach where I can put my feet in the water and comb the beach for sand dollars. I want to smell coastal chaparral.
I want to watch ocean waves crashing on thick sandy beaches backed by giant rocks standing a ways off shore while sea birds scream and swoop. I want to struggle to walk through soft difficult sand and pad my way easily on cold hard sand. I want to smell the sea.

I want to linger in evergreen forests and smell the woods. I want to pause in beach dune chaparral and smell sage brush.

I want to come home and have to shake sand off my shoes and wash my filthy feet with a hose near the back door and then have hot tea with my true love while I sort beach treasure I have combed – rocks, shells, and pieces of wood shaped by the sea.
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I want to go home.
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10 Comments
Libby
6/15/2022 03:22:55 pm

Same!!!! well put.

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Dr. P-J link
6/15/2022 04:54:22 pm

Thank you!

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Tina
6/15/2022 04:33:21 pm

I love it. I understand. Loving the water so much myself I often wonder why I have chosen a land-locked life.

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Dr P.J link
6/15/2022 04:55:23 pm

I hope you will get out to the sea in the near future. Thank you for your kind comments.

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Mike
6/15/2022 05:04:03 pm

Beautiful!

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Dr. P-J link
6/17/2022 10:48:21 am

Thank you! <3

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Jean
6/16/2022 12:40:17 pm

People out here would like it if you came back. XOXOXO

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Dr. P-J link
6/17/2022 10:49:14 am

I miss you and Dennis.
<3

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Diane Charles
7/10/2022 05:55:09 pm

I want to go home with you. Yes, you paint such a lovely picture with breezes and salty air, rough sandy feet and raindrops chasing you away from the pounding surf... You see? I smelled it. you felt it. (don't go for the bad pun,
it was irresistible)

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Dr. P-J link
7/15/2022 11:55:18 am

Thank you for your kind comments.
~ Dr. P-J

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