Category: Encouragement

  •     A Favorite Poem   For the Anniversary of My Death By W. S. Merwin     Every year without knowing it I have passed the day    When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star   Then I will…

  •   Do flowers ever experience anxiety?     Well, probably not the poppy! (or would it be just the opposite?)   Nahhhh.         Poppy field of one on my deck!  

  •     And the smiling moon! (Last night)               Thanks to Deborah Byrd's Earth and Sky, I could identify the red star, Aldebaran.

  •     This tiny squirrel accosted my young friend and his dad on their way back to their car in a parking lot in St. Augustine.   No sign of a mommy or daddy squirrel, so they brought her home with them. She is doing well with regular feeding and warmth and love.   There…

  •   There was a large 4 story abandoned factory building somewhere on U.S. 1 in Pennsylvania that I wanted to photograph but never got around to it. It was in serious disrepair with many broken windows, but in one window there was a sign, Help Wanted   This building reminded me of that…    …

  •   It's "King of the Hill"   King from the hill… I'm King from the hill!!   Ok… King!             Aden on the dune, St. Augustine Beach, yesterday! (Laine and Pat's show went really really well, and will be hanging until the 26th of April.) (Thanks to family and friends for…

  •   There is a book by Michael Meade that I am savoring, sentence by sentence. It's a gold mine of insight into our human life on earth, that connects us to the threads of eternity.   A quote from the book, The World Behind The World…       Happy Valentine's Weekend!   With love, Laine…

  •   Are you a kid? I'm a big kid. Was you ever little? Yes, I was. What happened to you? I grew up, sort of… But was you ever little? Yes! What happened to you?   (A Lot!)   Laine and her two sisters, when we were little…       ( I'm the blonde…

  •     The blue Hydrangea, on a summer's evening, the year of weddings and funerals.           June, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland.

  •     A new job, a whole new constellation of stars and stories.   When you first meet someone, what do they know of you?   Bit by bit our stories get told. Our very own myths, with twists and turns, and tragedies and triumphs, loss and redemption.   A life, like any other, and…