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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 that begins to include the storms and troubles and the peace and quiet. All's well.
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What lurks in yonder wood? Alligators and snakes, frogs and bugs, and all kinds of creepy, crawly, things. From a boat, however, it is rather picturesque. The cypress trees and their knees.
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The Black-eyed-Susan vine is one of the most cheerful hanging plants around… until it droops. Then there is a desperate attempt to bring it back to life and its former glory. It's reminiscent of some relationships. It looks so good in the plant store that it is irresistible – year after year!…
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Traveling lighter these days, letting go of lots of baggage. Are we entering a "New Age"? I know that I am, but I might be just growing up. How to tell the difference? Maybe because we are in a "New Age", I am growing up? Or maybe because of my age!…
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If you don't speak Balmerese, try not to over think it… Balmerese is the native language of the people who settled in Baltimore, Maryland. Hon Fest coming up in June!
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If the obstacle in our path is a drawbridge, a radio transmission is all that is needed to clear the way. Other barriers demand more of us. Sometimes it is merely a sitting still long enough for a genuine faith in our own talents and goodness to arise. Then doors open,…
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Change is in the air… A big storm – thunder and wind and rain – the air clears, the fires are out and the smoke disappears. Everything changes. Photo shot through an airplane window!
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The green of summer in her coat's full array shading and protecting The calm of morning Before the clock begins to dictate the day Such a sweet pleasure Bird songs welcome from distant branches My love and I find sensitivities emerging As we delight in…
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This First Poem is by Hannah Watson and is her second poem to be published on Laine's Blog. (see Hannah's Page, April 25th, 2012) Thanks Hannah! Cherish Your Life Love life as much as it loves you. Wind that cools as the sun beams to warm you. Birds singing…
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It didn't occur to me to imagine what the earth looked like during the eclipse the other day. Shot from the International Space Station, this photograph was my favorite in the APOD's (Astronomy Picture of the Day) gallery of Eclipse photos. A really different perspective! "Eclipse…
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