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Gleanings From Living Long
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Life is but a dream!
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As I grow older and and can glimpse the end of my days, there seems to be more time or time is more expansive somehow. Although the weeks zoom past with the years, the present moment is huge! You realize that you don't have to be in a hurry all the…
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Delicious sweet watermelon. A gift from the gods. (And a friend, and a farmer in North Carolina!) Thanks to all, and to sun and rain and earth, and to seeds that are so willing to grow. Enjoying the fruits of summer. Reposted from Laine's Blog, July 2014…
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A Last Time For Everything… Last call, last chanceLast song, last danceSometimes you just don't know when that's gonna beHold me baby, give me a kissLike tonight is all there isCause there's a last time for everything It's a Brad Paisley song that someone mentioned in a piece I found somewhere, and it…
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Is there a part of you that is the essence of who you are? A part that is not corrupted by the culture that you grew up in or the family that tortured you one way or the other? I call it your core. It is pure, whole, and located just below your…
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You Don't Have to Choose Between Happiness and Being Informed We are living in an amazingly beautiful world and when you focus on that more than on the bad news of the day, you begin to see that as confused and crazy as our civilization is the world is crazy beautiful! Her beauty…
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Delicate clinging vines – this is a time when clinging is good. Good for the vine and the wall benefits too, aesthetically. Is clinging ever good for us? We humans? Holding on to that good or bad feeling – joy or anger? Being in the moment is preferred, but if you have to…
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When we have long departed from this beautiful blue/green planet, will we one day long for a glimpse of a new leaf in springtime, missing the seasons and colors of Earth? Perhaps that depends on the treasures that we find on the other side. For now, a new green leaf…
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These two pelicans, flying and diving together in the shallow waters of Tampa Bay, in time to their own music – Reminded me of the two humpback whales dining together off Cape Cod, and the pilot whales, cruising in perfect harmony. Occasionally humans can, without a word, step together harmoniously to the shared…
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Sometimes it is impossible to remember that we live on an improbable accidental planet that might not have come into existence without the perfect balance of gravity and heat and cold and atmosphere and water at the perfect distance from our star. Spinning on its axis and orbiting around the sun with the…
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