In reading many stories about lighthouse keepers, preparedness was always a top priority.

Thank u for these words. I am alone in my family and in my own home in this. I am now prepping because I have become aware of the need to be prepared. My reason for it is because I live in the Caribbean where 6 months out of the year we are under the threat of hurricanes, severe storms and flooding. Kel, You described it well and your analogy is well thought out.

For some, learning from another who is also on the learning path is easier than trying to stand in the shadow of an expert. We can point them to folks like you who have much experience and willingness to share. Thanks for being one of those people! Wow Kellene, I am standing right there beside you. I have been living in Maine for 17 years but am quite a distance from the coast. I live about miles north of Bangor in a small town that is perfect for preparing. I do feel like I stand alone here in my prepping as no one around me that I associate with is doing the same.

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It so fills me up when I read your stories. Yes, then I know I am not alone. You are with me. Thank you for being there. Nancy— We also live miles north of bangor but close to the coast. Especially if it will help our family. Keep it up, you're not alone. I love that you are sentimental towards the pieces your mother so lovingly collected. It warms my heart. You are so blessed to have lived in Maine!

Maine is part of that mission area. We too now have a special place in our hearts for lighthouses.

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In fact, I have them all over my house now. I had bought several inexpensive ones for Table center pieces for his mission return dinner. I am looking at one of them right now, that sits a top of my computer desk. I need email to send attachment.

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Email already in use. Cancel before and your credit card will not be charged. With a lot of help from an unlikely angel in the form of a Sydney real estate agent, I came to rest in the lee of a lighthouse. He listened to my incoherent mutterings, heard what mattered, and tolerated my mood swings and heartbreaks. He consoled me and urged me on as we traipsed all over the city, never charging a cent for his time or expertise, and eventually he led me to a new nest, within easy walk of the barber-pole lighthouse on the tip of South Head.

I thank him every time I walk out there, and I walk out there almost daily. It is a pilgrimage. A camino, if you want. It is the one social media thingy of which I was an early uptaker. I love it for community and beauty, and for peeks into the lives of others. Mostly, I love it because it taught me new ways of seeing, and when I first spied the red and white lighthouse, I decided I would photograph it every time I visited, as a way of teaching myself that it is possible to look at anything — a lighthouse, a person, a problem, a grief — in myriad ways, and yet always to see it anew.

My lighthouse has taught me much. I look at it from above and below, from left and right, from up close and personal and from the other side of the harbour, in all weathers and at all times of day. I try to do the same with myself. I have learned to look for the ray of light when the going gets tough.

Such are the tensions a lighthouse embodies. It stands sentinel while all around it swirls — yet it also changes, depending on the conditions. Some days it is cherry red and gold. Some days crimson and harsh white.

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Some days it is cold and lonely. Some days it is proud; some days humble. I am grateful for the lessons of the lighthouse. This year, as I approach my birthday and consider the things I would like to create or invite into the coming year, my focus is on calm. It is not my natural state! Regardless, I feel pretty sure my lighthouse will continue to teach me.

In my birthday wishes for the year ahead, I send light to you, and a hope for smooth sailing. May you never feel you are becalmed or stuck, but may you know deep internal calm. And may you have a lighthouse…many lighthouses…to bring you home. I am interested in light-houses not because I have ever lived in or near one but because of Robert Louis STEVENSON — whose father, uncle — and grand-father — were among the greatest light-house engineers in the 19th century — and won the contract to build western style light-houses around the rocky coast-line of newly opening up Japan in the mid-latter part of the 19th century — including the one on Tsuno-shima Horn Island now the north-west tip of Yamaguchi-ken — and about 90 minutes from where I lived most of my years in Japan.

The poem just before it: Oooooohhhhhh thank you Jim.


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So many connections to RLS. Of course, being a walker he must have been a good sort! Thanks you for another brilliant connection. You always come up trumps! Will pass on your comment to Alanna, too. This is so beautiful! I love your writing! I too am in the midst of change brought about mostly from my camino and Spain. Thank you for your lighthouse lessons. Hi Jennifer, and thanks so much for reading. Somehow everything seemed very clear to me when I saw my life going into boxes. Hope you find the same. Within about three of the usual first-time meeting opening gambits we had established our links from ANU.

Amelia is a poet — of tanka — in English — and a noted translator from Japanese. Thank you Nick Charles!