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"…a soulful ecology is rooted in the feeling that this world is our home and that our responsibility to it comes not from obligation or logic, but from true affection. …As long as the heart is involved, care of the place will follow." Thomas Moore, Care of The Soul …
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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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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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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 seed factory in a Sago Palm brings to mind part of a quote from Kahlil Gibran, …life's longing for itself. Isn't that how this gorgeous planet evolved, one seedling at a time? © 2019 Laine Quinn Sago Drama!
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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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Through the trees… June 17th Full moon! ©Laine Quinn 2019
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