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Gleanings From Living Long
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It's that time of year – in a very odd year _ when emotions are raw and memories haunt you. Riding waves of feelings, not knowing where they come from, or why, or how long, you hang on. Storms come and they go, and you hang on. You hang…
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How can a year as strange as 2020 appear to be whizzing by? Already Thanksgiving! And still grateful – for the moon and stars and planets (especially this one!) – grateful for blue skies and rain trees and flowers wild waves and calm. Grateful to be alive and well and loving and…
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Just because light and color conspired to spread joy!
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Here I am surrounded by giant old oak trees, dripping with spanish moss, living with a joyful dog and a handsome cat, while it feels like the world is coming apart at the seams. It is not. The birds still sing. The frogs still croak and slap themselves onto the windows at…
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It's a good idea to embrace the other's otherness, because we are the other's other. Just ask any whale! We are all in this together! Two Whales, ©2015, Laine Quinn, Cape cod
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Collectively it is time that we imagine a better world. No matter what happens in the next months or years, it is time to put our minds on better things. Call it the power of positive thinking, of visualizing, of collective prayer – it all works and can change the world. Psychopathic…
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Never met a stranger When I heard that sentiment many years ago, I spent several days, weeks, months scratching my head. What on earth did it mean? Then it hit me like a ton of bricks – of course – none of us are strangers to one another. As Joni Mitchell put…
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