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Category: Planets
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Sometimes it is impossible to remember that we live on an improbable accidental planet that might not have come into existence without the perfect balance of gravity and heat and cold and atmosphere and water at the perfect distance from our star. Spinning on its axis and orbiting around the sun with the…
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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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Simple. A little planet in a grand and glorious galaxy in an unimaginable universe. Our little rock is spinning on its axis, rotating around our star, the sun, which is rotating in the galaxy, which is traveling in the universe, with other galaxies and planets and stars. We've learned so much…
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We Are all Humans – wonderfully diverse – who emerged from the same continent. The differences, Asian, Indian, Eskimo, Indigenous, so called Whites, Blacks – are just labels – tags – meaningless. All Human life on the planet emerged from the continent now called Africa. People dispersed to all parts…
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Social distancing not required… Cat (DJ) and Armadillo, the Moon and Venus, Two Butterflies, Cat (Lucy) kisses Gator, Two Web-footed friends, Five Turtles! All Safe.
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When you have peaceful, cooperative cities that are unfortified: no walls or fortresses – that have not developed weapons of death: there was no need for those things, as their neighbors were friendly – and violent warring tribes from the surrounding arid lands invade and destroy everything in their path, installing their vengeful, jealous…
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The American Experiment has never lived up to its promise of self-government and Liberty and Justice for All. From the start it was non-inclusive, predatory and rigged in favor of the "ruling class", the so called "people". But this doesn't mean that a course correction wouldn't change things for the better. America,…
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Tree of Life, re-imagined at Disney Park, Animal Kingdom. Look closely at the life carved into this man-made tree. Real trees have even more mysteries and secrets, kept over the centuries and passed down the generations. ©Laine Quinn 2019, Disney's Pandora Tree of Life. Possibly Ostrich in…
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Disney = long lines and sore feet and exhaustion! BUT… the Avatar ride in Pandora was worth it all! You are gliding on a Banshee through the Fantastic Pandora landscape, even though you never leave your seat, you duck and lean to avoid hitting branches and arches and going into the ocean! WILD!…
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A possum at the door last night reminded me of this one… No worries! Reprinted from Laine's Blog October, 2011.
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