To feel you all around me and to take your hand along the sand, ah, but I may as well as try and catch the wind.

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In creating his "fungus accretion" vases, Simon brushed the rough surface of a ceramic vase with a clay-and-water solution until it built upon itself like a hand-dripped sand castle.

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So in late 1997, when the navy began dredging 9m cubic yards of sand from San Diego harbour, a ready-made solution seemed at hand: the dredgings would more than replace the beach sand lost over the past decade.

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Boys, on the other hand, may become stuck on less typical activities, such as lining up blocks or running sand through their fingers.

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