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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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Hello, loyal followers! Laine's blog is in its 10th year! (I can't believe it!) Thank you for being part of my dreams and meanderings! The subscription service that I have been using, Feedburner will no longer be available after June. I have moved my list to Mail Chimp and hope that I did…
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Spotting a Baby bird outside my window, I watched to see if she was in distress… And here comes her mom or dad! A few seconds later, after mom left, one of her siblings flew in and knocked her off the railing! They tussled on the ground until the intruder…
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Sometimes when I am standing at the water's edge, looking out over the waves, I think that I should be having some profound thought or insight into my life or life in general. But, I never do. Sometimes I am worried about something. Sometimes I am not worried! Standing there…
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That we dedicate a day for the celebration of the Earth is absurd and also necessary. The, so called, "most intelligent" creatures that life has spawned can't even protect that which sustains their very existence. (It wasn't always this way.) There are people involved in the destruction of our air, water…
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Every day brings us closer to moonlight But Where is she now? (Crescent moon coming soon to your neighborhood sky!) In Honor of National Poetry Month, an original! ©Laine Quinn Photos taken in 2013, the moon and Venus just after sunset.
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Grounded in springtime – planting and potting and cleaning! And the Cicadas are due any minute now! We called them the 17 year Locusts. Magicicada. Living as nymphs, 8 feet below the surface, feeding on tree root sap in underground bunkers, (and I thought they were sleeping!), 17 years later, they emerge…
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I am a thing among other things. There was a little book in the "Tiny Library" next to the little playground which is next to the community garden in my neighborhood. My young friend wanted to play on his own for a little bit, so I picked up the little book, "The…
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I can see you! Puma in the ferns, and his gorgeous eyes looking back at me. ©2021 Laine Quinn
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Shamrocks seed themselves all over St. Augustine. Wild? I think so! Delightful? Definitely! Lucky? Let's hope! Violets too, much to my delight! ©2021 Laine Quinn, backyard shamrocks.
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