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Aug 25 An Evolving Life. Bathing Beauties

An Evolving Life, Life Ramblings, Meryl Spiegel, Art Plus Conversation

Bathing Beauties

As the summer winds down, we are headed toward an autumn fraught with uncertainty. Will the schools open only to invite more infection, sending our children back home, depriving them of a solid education? Will our votes be counted fair and square in November with an outcome that restores our faith in democracy and in America?

These are very big questions. Questions that can send us all into a tailspin of worry about what the future holds. Yet I continue to try to stay focused on the present, one day at a time.

This week I couldn’t take my eyes off these bathing beauties as I scanned the beach looking for my next subject. Stretched out soaking up the sun, they appeared undaunted, fearless...

The threat of disease (both Covid and cancer), global warming, economic collapse, and fascism seemed like a very bad Hollywood movie with a reality star at the center of its nightmare.

While we humans toss and turn trying to control outcomes on so many levels, however, the sun continues to shine. Living on the East End of Long Island, I am blessed to have witnessed the most beautiful summer I can remember in thirty years.

Although we can’t predict what will happen next, we can predict that Mother Nature will always find ways to restore us.

We just have to look...

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An Evolving Life Series

2020 Posts

Tapper
Stripped Down
Solar Energy
Purple Soul
Red Sister
Home Alone
Some Hope
Kepi
Recovery
Protected
Pure
Company
For George
Cope Ability
Cactus Flowers
Gazebo
Compliance
Bathing Beauties (This one)

2019 Posts
Click here to follow Meryl’s journey through 2019.

2018 Posts
Learn more about how it all began! Click here to read An Evolving Life posts from 2018.

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Meryl Spiegel

Meryl Spiegel is a photographic artist, whose work reflects her relentless curiosity whether she is on the street, in the fields or by the water. A former journalist for The New York Times with an MFA in Creative Writing, she now focuses primarily on her artwork, but is thrilled to share her thoughts here about how her creative life continues to evolve and expand.

“I picked up a camera years ago thinking it was the only way I could render humanity and its wonders,” she recalls. “Then three years ago, I began to draw and ultimately paint, not knowing I could.”

Also an educator, Meryl teaches photography as well as yoga, a passion that fuels her creativity off the mat. Regularly, she conducts photographic workshops at East End Arts. Last year the Center Moriches Library was awarded a grant from the NY State Council on the Arts to fund a Composition class conducted by Meryl and offered free to its patrons. This summer and fall, she will be conducting more classes at the library.

Meryl lives with her husband, Steven, and her hound dog, Copper, in East Quogue —where she raised her two daughters, Lauren, a Westhampton real estate agent, and Jaclyn, a financial analyst in Manhattan.

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