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Category: St. Augustine
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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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SPRING! Ignoring world events – has sprung! Red Hibiscus, coming through the slats. ©2020 Laine Quinn
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Where beauty is – there rests the soul. Azaleas in full force in St. Augustine.
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It is difficult to sit still for an invisible catastrophe – there's no wind, no rain, no flooding – in fact the weather here is perfect. We have electricity, water, internet, the pantry is full, and we have each other. So, wash your hands, enjoy each other – (they are singing…
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In her autobiography, Dust Tracks On A Road, Zora Neale Hurston, with no disrespect to organized Religion, states that- "It is simply not for me… The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn, is glory enough for me." Amen! Photo, Crescent Beach,…
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Ecola I walked by the sea-creek side. The wind laughed, the gulls cried. Sweet water lapped on the salt sand between the deep sea and the deep land. Ursula K. LeGuin Years ago, Joseph Campbell told us that the poets would save us. I begin to understand. …
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The word obscene in Greek Tragedies meant that the action took place off scene, behind the curtain, because it was too terrible to actually depict on stage. I've gone back 100 years to shake up the past and improve our lives. Going back farther one is confronted with obscene brutality. Imperialism –…
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So, in my alternate universe… There was no degradation of the earth. Clean Air. Clean Water. No lies, no wars in the oil rich Middle East, no lives lost. The U.S. military would be doing what it is charged with- protecting Democracy, not dismantling it worldwide. Cancer would still be a rare disease, not…
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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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While burning a few things on the deck in the chiminnea, I noticed these caterpillars munching away on the Butterfly Weed. It was over a month ago. There were about 10 or 12 of them, and they decimated that plant. Then yesterday, while leaning over the rail to reach a hanging…
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