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Category: Encouragement
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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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I am a thing among other things. There was a little book in the "Tiny Library" next to the little playground which is next to the community garden in my neighborhood. My young friend wanted to play on his own for a little bit, so I picked up the little book, "The…
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Shamrocks seed themselves all over St. Augustine. Wild? I think so! Delightful? Definitely! Lucky? Let's hope! Violets too, much to my delight! ©2021 Laine Quinn, backyard shamrocks.
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Noisy birds in the Hollies dozens of them with a familiar sound from childhood Robin Red Breasts feasting in Florida away from the Arctic Air and ice up North, and stopping for a bath! Canadian Robins, a long way from home and probably glad of it, the original…
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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. T.S. Eliot From the poem "Ash Wednesday" Photo ©Laine Quinn Boat on a pond in Wellfleet.
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St. Augustine Harbor looking east, with the sun low in the west lighting up the sky, after an afternoon storm. (True Colors!) ©LaineQuinn 2015 St. Augustine, Florida
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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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It's that time of year – in a very odd year _ when emotions are raw and memories haunt you. Riding waves of feelings, not knowing where they come from, or why, or how long, you hang on. Storms come and they go, and you hang on. You hang…
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Simple. A little planet in a grand and glorious galaxy in an unimaginable universe. Our little rock is spinning on its axis, rotating around our star, the sun, which is rotating in the galaxy, which is traveling in the universe, with other galaxies and planets and stars. We've learned so much…
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How can a year as strange as 2020 appear to be whizzing by? Already Thanksgiving! And still grateful – for the moon and stars and planets (especially this one!) – grateful for blue skies and rain trees and flowers wild waves and calm. Grateful to be alive and well and loving and…
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