Because when life throws the good, the bad and the sometimes questionable things at us, it will be the people in our lives that make it all so very interesting and undeniably rich every single day.

“I am here now and I am not leaving. It has been a long road to get here, but I am here in Starboard, Maine, better yet, I live Downeast.” — RJ Heller
Having arrived here from Pennsylvania in 2015 RJ Heller has learned a lot and he shares this by writing, taking pictures and revealing the essence of a life Downeast in both words and photos. “This place is different,” he says with a smile.
“All of us take things for granted, life should not be one of them. Life Downeast is all about slowing it down and letting the essence of place come through at its own pace. Let us, together, experience yesterday’s Maine, everyday as I live life Downeast.” — RJ Heller
Because when life throws the good, the bad and the sometimes questionable things at us, it will be the people in our lives that make it all so very interesting and undeniably rich every single day.
When I look to islands today, I see yesterday — island and islanders — looking right back at me. I see pointy spires of trees catch and hold fog as it annoys, gulls floating on bands of unseen air, rocks pummeled by surf, the spray wetting my view.
Whether they are alone or in large groups, it is a foregone conclusion when in the company of wind, sea and land that there will be seagulls.
Life is a clock, and hope is that internal mechanism within life we must wind every day.