Category: Current Affairs

  •   Happy New Year, and Welcome 2018!     (And so long 2017, and Good Bye!) (Good Riddance!)   Leaving a difficult year and venturing into the unknown new one. Learning to balance the bad news and sorrows  with the joy and love that is all around.   Thanks to all for the Joy and…

  •     Happy Holidays everyone!!! Stay Safe and Strong!    

  •   Respect   That's the word that seems to be missing from the conversation about harassment and abuse.   Respect.   That powerful men abuse their power is nothing new.     That we objectify beauty is as old as time and isn't going away!   But throw in respect and that beauty is recognized as…

  •   The stage lights at the Gipsy Kings' concert on Thursday night! St. Augustine Amphitheater.   A good time was had by all!      

  •   There are some who say that we are safer now than at any other time in Human History. And there are some who say that we are never ever safe.   There are some who work tirelessly for peace. And there are some who work tirelessly for war.   There are those who worship…

  •     Beauty in the world is experienced by the individual as feeling.   If we look more closely at beauty and try to describe more carefully the beauty of the world, we do not arrive at aesthetics, but rather love.   Is not beauty the particular way in which the world expresses itself as…

  •     This is the old Aviles Street. Come to First Friday tonight to see the new Aviles street, with sidewalk cafes and lots of new galleries.   Including Butterfield Garage on Aviles! Laine's photos will be on display through the month of February, alongside the other wonderful artists from Butterfield Garage.      …

  •       Bless us all on this unusual inauguration day.   And Bless America.          

  •   Anything can happen! And hopefully we will all be here at the end of it!   Throw caution to the wind? Why not? It might just be the thing to do.   Happy New Year Everyone!           Sunset, Porpoise Point, St. Augustine, 2016.    

  •     Soon here… Soon over…         Merry Christmas Eve, Eve! Reprinted from Laine's Blog, December 2015.