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Category: Encouragement
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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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Does the Egret apologize to the fish? Is the fish feeling like a victim, getting angry and huffy? These two marvelous creatures are living and dying on the same page. No apologies. No blame. When we seek honestly that which nourishes us, we thrive. Reprinted from Laine's Blog, October,…
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When memories pop up that remind you of your mistakes, missteps and lost opportunities – do they come to make you feel bad all over again? Or are they coming to maybe help you? Help you to find forgiveness and compassion for your self? To finally move off – move on – to the happiness…
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What I know – what I know is – Love will find a way. Conflict in your life? Say this – Love will find a way. Anxious? Say this in your heart and mind – Love will find a way. It does. It will. Somehow it opens your heart…
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How's it going? Personally – within? Take a moment to remember that you are here now with your very own life. Your very own precious life. How's it going? Within? Breathe. ©Laine Quinn2021
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Can you be stressed and joyful at the same time? Worried and happy at the same time? Yes and Yes! It takes some living and loving and forgiving to arrive at a time in your life when your emotions balance without effort. Joy and happiness can rise to the top like bubbles…
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Sometimes when I am standing at the water's edge, looking out over the waves, I think that I should be having some profound thought or insight into my life or life in general. But, I never do. Sometimes I am worried about something. Sometimes I am not worried! Standing there…
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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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Every day brings us closer to moonlight But Where is she now? (Crescent moon coming soon to your neighborhood sky!) In Honor of National Poetry Month, an original! ©Laine Quinn Photos taken in 2013, the moon and Venus just after sunset.
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What I have been trying not to say out loud, is that there are blessings or gifts hidden in tragedies, and these gifts may not be obvious for some time to come, but they are there. If we can make a commitment not to let the anger and helplessness allow us…
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