Category: Inspiration

  •     Considering these grave markers, (are they discarded,or awaiting re-positioning, it's hard to say?) it might encourage one to seize the day, since once you have given up your body, you are really gone.   Maybe not really dead as some suggest, but really gone.         Ancient Cemetary outside of Budepest…

  •     Is this oak tree burdened by the spanish moss?   If you really pay attention to your life, then you recognize that your burdens are connected to your joys.   All you have to do is remember where the love is.   And that gets easier and easier, when you realize that your…

  •     Once in a while, exactly what we want, need, falls right into our – beaks.         Sea gull, Cedar Key about to catch a bit of bread thrown by the upstairs neighbors.  

  •     Once upon a time, there was a cottage on top of these pilings, and it was known as the "Honeymoon Cottage", AND it was/is the most photographed structure in Cedar Key, Florida.   After spending a long weekend in this friendly town, the simplicity of this structure and the fact that it is…

  •     I am a little jealous of the bees. They get their tiny bellies rubbed by the softest of flower petals.   I wish I could do that!               Related articles Bees spot best flowers from afar based on petal colour Flowers Aren't Always Beautiful…

  •     Christopher Robin and Pooh are walking through the hundred acre wood, just before Christopher has to start school. This is the conversation that we hear…   Pooh, what do you like doing best in the world?   What I like best, is me going to visit you and you saying, 'How about a…

  •     It turns out that keeping company with 300 year old Oak Trees is good medicine.  Something about the grandeur, and the quietness, and the solid grounded feelings that they emote.   How many lives have passed this way? How many storms? How much sunshine and moonshine and happy voices and sad voices?  …

  •     It's not too shabby when you have finally stopped sabatoging your own happiness and joy.   Silver linings everywhere.           Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine Florida.      

  •       How do you sweeten your life? Chocolate? Long walks on the beach? Time spent with friends? Fragrant flowers?   It's a good day for some sweetness!     (You can almost smell the plumeria!)         Reprinted from LainesBlog, August 2012      

  •     The world seems to be trying to turn me into a morning person. All I can say is, "Not yet, not yet, not yet."         Sunrise, and birds on the wire, (didn't make it to the inlet in time!) St. Augustine.