Him, Her and Him by the Seashore, Balancing Levity and Suffering
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âWoman on the Beachâ is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.
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Despite occasional detours into sentimentality, this Irish film is better than the usual three-stage journey of courage, heartbreak and redemption.
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By PETERBOROUGH  AT THIS time of year when all seems doom and gloom, I reminisce about happier times when, as a child growing up, one could find happiness on a beach in Cornwall.   There is a beach at Marazion where my father would take me crabbing as a boy.
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The winds of change are upon us.
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From a gentles creature, a lesson in ferocious tenacity.
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This is the time of year when, in the lengthening shadows of afternoon, the air grows still and mysterious around here. An aura of secrecy and duplicity replaces that friendly banter among serious fisherpeople. Down the long strand of beach, shadowy figures keep to themselves, never showing whatever success they may be enjoying.
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The heroine of this engaging new novel finds herself torn between two men: one serious, responsible and boring, the other romantic, charming and self-absorbed.
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By Lyndsey Lewis, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb.
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By Joyce Owen, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Feb.
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Hopeful thoughts, for those of us wriggling in the muck of love.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 20--A coastal community can never have too many qualified lifesavers on the beach.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.
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AMBALANGODA, Sri Lanka -- Asia's tsunami disaster dealt sharply different fates to those along the coasts, depending on how far they lived from the shore.
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As Hurricane Ivan tore across the Gulf of Mexico towards them, the inhabitants of America&#39;s most notoriously hedonistic town did one of two things.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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A mechanism in the brain may explain why some people cope better than others in the face of adversity.