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Sons, Sea, Blue Sky, and Seafoam Serenity: Join My 365-Day Peaceful Photo Challenge

2 min readMar 18, 2025

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Author’s Photos: My sons in the serene seafoam-green Atlantic Ocean on a beautiful, blue-skied day. Hollywood, Florida

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March 18, 2025

My sons are everything to me.

As much as I am drawn to nature, I am also compelled to nurture — to constantly evolve in the ever-changing role of parent to be the caregiver and guide I was created to be.

My sons, born with yet incurable illnesses, who struggled through almost two decades for diagnosis and the possibility of receiving equitable care, still struggle in countless ways.

They are my heroes.

Our journeys as parents are not designed to be smooth sailing under blue skies every day. Storms buffet our children, and because of our relationships with them, they also buffet us.

These photos of my sons floating in and wading out into the Atlantic, adorned in its ever-shifting hues of seafoam green and blue skies, are potent metaphors for the journey of…

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Michelle A. Patrovani - M.A.P.
Michelle A. Patrovani - M.A.P.

Written by Michelle A. Patrovani - M.A.P.

Pursuing simplicity & meaning. Mom of young adult sons with life-threatening, incurable illness. X: @AbundantBreath LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in

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