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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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What nourishes you in the middle of a Pandemic? What nourishes you when political forces take a dark turn and plunge us into a past that should be long forgotten? For me it is Poetry – Poetry and Music that soothe my soul and the beauty all around me – flowers…
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October – harvests and bright moons, bales of hay and straw, pumpkins, ghosts and goblins, spider webs, dressing up and acting out. What was your favorite costume for Halloween? Mine was Robin Hood! I remember a burlap tunic, a bow and arrow and the perfect pointed hat. I think that my mother…
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I wanted to write about the unsettling times we find ourselves in and then there was that date, September 11, 2021 staring me in the eye. In 2001, almost a week after that horrible day, I was on a sailboat in Provincetown Harbor and witnessed the most magnificent sunset caused by the dust…
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America is a mess… But the good news is this: Americans are good people and love is rising above hate and kindness is spreading in every neighborhood. There is more that connects us than divides us and optimism is our only choice and our hope for the future of the American Dream…
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That we dedicate a day for the celebration of the Earth is absurd and also necessary. The, so called, "most intelligent" creatures that life has spawned can't even protect that which sustains their very existence. (It wasn't always this way.) There are people involved in the destruction of our air, water…
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Grounded in springtime – planting and potting and cleaning! And the Cicadas are due any minute now! We called them the 17 year Locusts. Magicicada. Living as nymphs, 8 feet below the surface, feeding on tree root sap in underground bunkers, (and I thought they were sleeping!), 17 years later, they emerge…
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Imagine a world where the inspired leaders of our young nation had been inspired enough to include women in those first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Would there have been the wholesale murder of the indigenous people who helped us settle this wild…
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An early morning thunderstorm left behind these beautiful clouds for the rising sun to shine upon. May all the storms in our lives be blessings in disguise. (Let's hope!) ©Laine Quinn 2021, reprinted from Laine's Blog, November 13rd, 2011.
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2020 Oh My – Goodbye goodbye goodbye – and don't come back ever again. The odd thing about this horrid year is that the world is more united than ever before. A global pandemic has brought us closer. The virus crossed from one country to another – without passport or…
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