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Gleanings From Living Long
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There is an interview with the Four Women of "The Squad" on Democracy Now. After reading the transcript of these four diverse women, at a time when I was getting very disheartened about the state of the country and the world, I found HOPE! They are, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley…
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Whenever I see a line of pelicans coming along the beach, over the waves, their wingtips just grazing the water, I get a little bit jealous of how simple their life appears to be. It seems that the creatures of this world are better at meeting their daily needs than the oh…
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I'm going to learn to fish! Not like the patient and swift Egret, or the people who go out to sea, no matter the weather. No, more like the folks standing on the shore patiently casting and reeling in. But, I never could stomach putting a live worm on…
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From the book of poems, BLUE HORSES by Mary Oliver …Bless the words with which I try to say what I see, think, or feel. With gratitude for the grace of the earth. The expected and the exception, both. For all the hours I have been given to be in this world. …
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Just before the Hurricane, this little one emerges. She's on her way to the turbulent waves. We on the shore want so badly to help, but we know better and walk beside her, well meaning, helpless, guardians, until a wave envelopes her – back and forth and she is gone on her long…
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A serene scene for anxious times… Mother Nature hasn't given up on us yet. St. Augustine Beach, 9.11.19 ©Laine Quinn What we can do to support the climate strike on Friday, the 20th of September- Don't buy anything on line that has to be delivered to your home,…
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The sea oats are green again, beginning their cycle from spring to fall to winter… Living in Florida, it's easy to forget what season it is, but there are ways of being reminded, and the sea oats jarred me out of late summer to early summer, right where we are! …
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Hot and humid one day, foggy the next, rain and then cold after that… That's our winter, here in St. Augustine, warm again now, in the 70's all week! Not too shabby! Porpoise Point, Vilano Beach, December 30th, 2018. ©Laine Quinn
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This is nothing like watching the Moon rising over the ocean in person, but it's all I got! It was truly breathtaking!
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A perfect full moon, coming up over the horizon. Nothing marks the daily passage of time so acutely as the phases of the moon. Four clear beautiful nights (and sunny days) at the beach, and she's practically at half mast when it is time to go home. On cloudy days, we are…
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