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Category: Encouragement
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Here today… gone tomorrow. Deck flowers, April colors, 2017.
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When the web of your days and nights gets so tangled that you start losing sleep, is it really so complicated? If you look your life in the eye, it's not all roses and buttercups AND it's not half bad either. All the loveliness, that is your life, outweighs the self doubts…
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Worrying… It's quite a distraction… and then, well… Wonder on the other hand, it will lift you up and up and up! (I wonder what I will worry about today?) (I worry what I will wonder about tomorrow!) Just wonderin'. Here's a line from one of…
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A possum at the door last night reminded me of this one… No worries! Reprinted from Laine's Blog October, 2011.
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Nestlings are so very vulnerable. This little one endured severe thunderstorms, only to be stalked by a crowd of noisy crows and survived that too. Nature provides lots of drama for her creatures. Perhaps we all have a nestling within us…our inner hatchling. It's the part of us that has come through…
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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…
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Be kind To your web-footed friends, for a duck may be somebody's Mother. Be kind to your friends in the swamp, where the weather is very very damp…. The End! Muscovy Ducks at Treaty Park being very friendly.
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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…
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Movement in the stillness, more in the woods behind us, squirrels and owls, and under the surface of the water. A balance is struck at the end of the day as the light fades and we rush to beat the darkness home. Sunset at Vail Point on Moultrie…
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Wisdom, Strength, and All the Patience in the World… Old Cypress St. Simons Island, Georgia, 2015. Reprinted from Laine's Blog, 2015.
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