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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
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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!
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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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America is a mess… But the good news is this: Americans are good people and love is rising above hate and kindness is spreading in every neighborhood. There is more that connects us than divides us and optimism is our only choice and our hope for the future of the American Dream…
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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…