Category: Friends

  • Where would we be without our friends?

  •     When all is said and done, we are all just walking each other home.                                                           Ram Das           Humpback Whales, Cape…

  •     Friends, paddling along together through life's currents. It's a calm evening and mild in between the storms and troubles. There's peace and quiet and a kind of welcome ordinariness, a rightness about things.   All's well.         Reprinted from LainesBlog May 2013 Two Pelicans in the quiet evening, St. Augustine…

  •     Friends, paddling along together through life's currents. It's a calm evening and mild in between the storms and troubles. There's peace and quiet and a kind of welcome ordinariness, a rightness about things.   All's well.         Reprinted from LainesBlog May 2013 Two Pelicans in the quiet evening, St. Augustine…

  •   Small Wonders   Snails together on the sidewalk, two tiny snails, one larger – Mother and son? Sisters?  Brothers? Friends?   Where are they going? Together?!        

  •         Remember when people used to write letters to one another? A lost art, to be sure.           Love letters on Flagler's Fishing Pier. Reprinted from LainesBlog, February 2015, with additions from Laine!  ©LaineQuinn2022

  •       Life can be overwhelming at times – aging parents, sick children, losing a treasured pet. Even joy can flood the heart, so much beauty, so much love, so complex. That's where our friends come in. They walk with us even when we are apart and help us to make sense of our…

  •   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…

  •   I wanted to write about the unsettling times we find ourselves in and then there was that date, September 11, 2021 staring me in the eye.   In 2001, almost a week after that horrible day, I was on a sailboat in Provincetown Harbor and witnessed the most magnificent sunset caused by the dust…

  •       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…