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Gleanings From Living Long
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Simple. A little planet in a grand and glorious galaxy in an unimaginable universe. Our little rock is spinning on its axis, rotating around our star, the sun, which is rotating in the galaxy, which is traveling in the universe, with other galaxies and planets and stars. We've learned so much…
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Driving over the bridge to the beach the other night the sky was strikingly – striped! From West to East – stripes! A pending cold front, I was informed and sure enough – that night was our first cold one – dipping into the 30's. Quite…
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How can a year as strange as 2020 appear to be whizzing by? Already Thanksgiving! And still grateful – for the moon and stars and planets (especially this one!) – grateful for blue skies and rain trees and flowers wild waves and calm. Grateful to be alive and well and loving and…
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Out of nowhere nature paints a rainbow coming out of the horizon and it's just sitting there! I see a guy coming along in the distance, too far to shout out but somehow I get his attention and point to the rainbow and he excitedly gives me a thumbs up! He…
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Just because light and color conspired to spread joy!
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One day more…
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Here I am surrounded by giant old oak trees, dripping with spanish moss, living with a joyful dog and a handsome cat, while it feels like the world is coming apart at the seams. It is not. The birds still sing. The frogs still croak and slap themselves onto the windows at…
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An old Spring House in San Miguel, Mexico – a reminder to be grounded – in our friendship with ourselves, with nature, with each other. Grounded in uncertainty, and upheaval, and accepting the times we find ourselves in. Grounded in whatever way you get grounded, for your very own peace of…
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"…when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." John Muir Quote from Brain Pickings on Sunday, by Maria Popova. Butterflies from St. Augustine, Key West…
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It's a good idea to embrace the other's otherness, because we are the other's other. Just ask any whale! We are all in this together! Two Whales, ©2015, Laine Quinn, Cape cod