Category: Vilano Beach

  •     Sometimes when I am standing at the water's edge, looking out over the waves, I think that I should be having some profound thought or insight into my life or life in general. But, I never do.   Sometimes I am worried about something. Sometimes I am not worried!     Standing there…

  •     It's that time of year – in a very odd year _ when emotions are raw and memories haunt you.       Riding waves of feelings, not knowing where they come from, or why, or how long, you hang on.    Storms come and they go, and you hang on. You hang…

  •   Driving over the bridge to the beach the other night the sky was strikingly –     striped!         From West to East – stripes!   A pending cold front, I was informed and sure enough – that night was our first cold one – dipping into the 30's.   Quite…

  •     Out of nowhere nature paints a rainbow coming out of the horizon and it's just sitting there!   I see a guy coming along in the distance, too far to shout out but somehow I get his attention and point to the rainbow and he excitedly gives me a thumbs up!   He…

  •   Everyday – at least once a day – Picture your perfect world. At least once, for a few minutes or more! Everyday.           Vilano Beach Reflection, © 2020 Laine Quinn

  •     Change is in the air. Compassion and righteous anger are walking the streets of America with Lady Justice. There will be no turning back these pages of history ourstory – no matter what the impeached president says or does.   Change is in the air. This isn't 2 dozen people with automatic weapons…

  •     "The shore means many things to many people. Of its varied moods the one usually considered typical is not so at all. The true spirit does not reside in the gentle surf that laps a sun drenched bathing beach on a summer day. Instead, it is on a lonely shore at dawn or…

  •   (Sea gull wondering if it is safe to join the others…)   *"If social distancing needs to be extended long term, scientists recommend forming an inner circle of uninfected friends and family that you can rely on to maintain social bonds…"   Some others call this a pod – forming a pod of trusted…

  •   It might happen to you, like it did to me – when you're singing along to an old sad song trying to hold it together – that's when it might hit you – or in the middle of nowhere talking to your friend, husband or wife – it might boil over the top and…

  •   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…