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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Inspiration
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As I grow older and and can glimpse the end of my days, there seems to be more time or time is more expansive somehow. Although the weeks zoom past with the years, the present moment is huge! You realize that you don't have to be in a hurry all the…
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Is there a part of you that is the essence of who you are? A part that is not corrupted by the culture that you grew up in or the family that tortured you one way or the other? I call it your core. It is pure, whole, and located just below your…
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You Don't Have to Choose Between Happiness and Being Informed We are living in an amazingly beautiful world and when you focus on that more than on the bad news of the day, you begin to see that as confused and crazy as our civilization is the world is crazy beautiful! Her beauty…
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Delicate clinging vines – this is a time when clinging is good. Good for the vine and the wall benefits too, aesthetically. Is clinging ever good for us? We humans? Holding on to that good or bad feeling – joy or anger? Being in the moment is preferred, but if you have to…
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These two pelicans, flying and diving together in the shallow waters of Tampa Bay, in time to their own music – Reminded me of the two humpback whales dining together off Cape Cod, and the pilot whales, cruising in perfect harmony. Occasionally humans can, without a word, step together harmoniously to the shared…
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Sometimes it is impossible to remember that we live on an improbable accidental planet that might not have come into existence without the perfect balance of gravity and heat and cold and atmosphere and water at the perfect distance from our star. Spinning on its axis and orbiting around the sun with the…
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Sincere, unapologetic gratitude goes a long way towards opening our hearts. And there is lots to be grateful for, lots! Maple tree in Baltimore. ©LaineQuinn2022
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The beauty around us No matter where you are There is beauty around you! The Inlet St. Augustine ©LaineQuinn 2022
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Like snakes, lizards shed their skin. This one is in the middle of that shedding, frozen almost, not moving. It must be a difficult process, making them vulnerable, like us when we go through changes – shedding the layers of our defenses, opening up to the world and love! When I…
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Does anyone remember this? You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. That worthiness is the thing that was missing in my early years. There is a book that has convinced me that I am equally deserving of…
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