https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/gifts/ Recent content in Gifts on A Geek's Life Hugo en Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:23:32 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2019/08/12/gift/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:23:32 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2019/08/12/gift/ <p><img alt="sea shell for post" loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/sea-shell-for-post.jpg"><em>Gift, for The Sunday Muse <a href="https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2019/08/sunday-muse-68.html">prompt #68</a>. Photography by Edouard Boubat.</em></p> <p>\<em>\</em>\* Against the pressure of the sea and the darkness of the depths, the gift has been formed, layer by layer each crystal a prayer offered up for protection from the predation of the boring sponge, the oyster worm and the scurrying crab.</p> <p>Each day that water has washed over it - wearing tiny paths across its stubborn skin - a battle has been won; of survival, and quiet reassurance. And when someday, bequeathed by the sea, it lies in the hands of a grateful child, its hardy brilliance will yet still speak, more loudly in its silence than all the things it has survived.</p> https://archive.rustgeek.me/2016/01/07/5-spontaneity/ Thu, 07 Jan 2016 21:25:06 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2016/01/07/5-spontaneity/ <p><img alt="5 - surprise" loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fe9a1-5-surprise.jpg"></p> <p>Sent on a whim, and very well received by all accounts. I should do this more often.</p> <p>#Embrace spontaneity</p>