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Category: Travel
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They say that the Universe is giving us messages all the time. I think that I got one the other day. I always sit at the back of a plane to get a window seat, and waiting for my turn to depart I was listening to some music that another passenger was playing, and…
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"I'm fine, really." This man was right next to our table at the very best restaurant in Tihany, Hungary. He was fine, really. Reprinted from LainesBlog October 2014
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Collectively it is time that we imagine a better world. No matter what happens in the next months or years, it is time to put our minds on better things. Call it the power of positive thinking, of visualizing, of collective prayer – it all works and can change the world. Psychopathic…
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A lot of people will be traveling over the coming weeks, going home. Where is home? Is it where you spent your childhood? Or where you choose to live? Is home a moveable feast? Do we carry it within us? Is it a place we…
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It's a good idea to embrace the other's otherness, because we are the other's other. Just ask any whale! We are all in this together! Two Whales, ©2015, Laine Quinn, Cape cod
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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 fallen blossom Is coming back to the branch. Look, a butterfly! by Moritake (1473-1549) Happy Earth Day!!! Of course, everyday is Earth Day! And since April is National Poetry Month, here is a Haiku from a book I have had with me all of my adult life, One Hundred…
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The sun is shining in a break in this long hollow log, giving life to any number of creatures and green living things. Fallen Oak, Wolfe Laurel, North Carolina. © Laine Quinn 2018
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Whichever way the wind blows, so blows the fog, and clings when the weather insists. Top of Bald Mountain, the Appalachian trail on the right, and a well trod trail it is. © Laine Quinn 2018