Category: Beaches

  •   Full Twist   Alternate leg stretch               ©2020, Laine Quinn Snowy Egret, Great Blue Heron, St. Augustine Beach

  •     Change is in the air. Compassion and righteous anger are walking the streets of America with Lady Justice. There will be no turning back these pages of history ourstory – no matter what the impeached president says or does.   Change is in the air. This isn't 2 dozen people with automatic weapons…

  •   It's Sunday,  take the day off! With all of the bad news and incompetence of our government, and missing being close to our loved ones – our hearts get heavy. But that's because of the love in our hearts. Love and compassion and empathy and sorrow. So, take a break. Forget the bad news…

  •     It's been over a month since I've been to the beach. Emotions seem to be wrapped up in worry and uncertainty, and I don't miss it in the usual way. But I do miss it!               ©Laine Quinn 2019 St. Augustine Beach, sunrise.  

  •     "The shore means many things to many people. Of its varied moods the one usually considered typical is not so at all. The true spirit does not reside in the gentle surf that laps a sun drenched bathing beach on a summer day. Instead, it is on a lonely shore at dawn or…

  •   (Sea gull wondering if it is safe to join the others…)   *"If social distancing needs to be extended long term, scientists recommend forming an inner circle of uninfected friends and family that you can rely on to maintain social bonds…"   Some others call this a pod – forming a pod of trusted…

  •     In her autobiography, Dust Tracks On A Road, Zora Neale Hurston, with no disrespect to organized Religion, states that-   "It is simply not for me… The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn, is glory enough for me."       Amen! Photo, Crescent Beach,…

  •     Ecola   I walked by the sea-creek side. The wind laughed, the gulls cried. Sweet water lapped on the salt sand between the deep sea and the deep land.                                                 Ursula K. LeGuin   Years ago, Joseph Campbell told us that the poets would save us.   I begin to understand.    …

  •   Happy Valentine's Day!

  •   There is an interview with the Four Women of "The Squad" on Democracy Now. After reading the transcript of these four diverse women, at a time when I was getting very disheartened about the state of the country and the world, I found HOPE!   They are, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley…