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If someone asked you what the dominant emotion of your childhood was, what would your answer be? This happened to me and it wasn't a trusted friend or a therapist who posed the question, but someone I cleaned for who could engage me in interesting conversations. My uninhibited response was, "shame." As…
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Tulips going by, as all things must, beautifully. Photo by Gilda Strutz ©2013. Thanks Gilda! (It's National Poetry Month, so dust off those gems that you've jotted down and submit them to laine@lainesblog.com. Poems will be published the last week of April, so submit by the 19th. Add…
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Metal Art made in Mexico with reclaimed materials.
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These solid, sturdy, dependable mountains, remind me of the wild, rolling ocean, wave after wave after wave. The view from Brasstown Bald Mountain in Georgia.
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Getting to a higher place, where you can look down on a situation, clears the mind and helps you to see your place in the larger scheme of things. Your sense of self importance is brought back to reality and you can smile and carry on. It doesn't have to be…
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Light and shadow and everything in between. Anastasia Island State Park, St. Augustine, Florida.
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Primitive anxieties in a "modern" world. Simpler when you can see the predator, and not some elusive shadow from the past. How to cope? Trust what you have learned, what you know is true. Wait it out. Look around you and believe what you see, not what you feel. …
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The weather has been dramatic the last couple of days. Fierce lightening and dark skies, wind and torrential rain. Storms in March are intense, and then they are over. The temperature rises and falls, and rises and falls again. Like any good drama. Cloudy sky from March, 2012…
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Of course, the sky is everywhere- but it's bigger at the beach. St. Augustine Beach, almost sunset. To my e-mail subscribers, there is a problem with feedburner, and I am not sure that it can be resolved. I will keep you posted. In the meantime, Laine's Blog will…
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The long winters are not missed, but the spring bulbs surely are. Happy Springtime! St. Augustine Garden, Spring, 2013.