Category: Inspiration

  •     Just because light and color conspired to spread joy!           Reprinted from Laine's Blog November 2020 with added photo! ©LaineQuinn2021  

  •       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…

  •     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,…

  • 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…

  •   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…

  •   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…

  •   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  

  •   Between cloudy nights and thunderstorm days, the moon only showed her face two times for an entire month.   But the clouds – the clouds were wonderful! building each day in the willing sky, between sun and rain and rainbows!           ©LaineQuinn 2021 Stormy July!

  •   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…