Just because light and color conspired to spread joy!
Reprinted from Laine's Blog November 2020 with added photo!
©LaineQuinn2021
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Life can be overwhelming at times – aging parents, sick children, losing a treasured pet.
Even joy can flood the heart, so much beauty, so much love, so complex.
That's where our friends come in.
They walk with us even when we are apart and help us to make sense of our mortal lives.
Where would we be without our friends?
Here's to old friends, new friends and the friends we are about to meet!
Thank You!
Reprinted from Laine's Blog, November, 2011
©LaineQuinn 2021
Sculpture found at Cummer Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida.
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What nourishes you
in the middle of a Pandemic?
What nourishes you
when political forces take a dark turn
and plunge us into a past that should be long forgotten?
For me it is Poetry –
Poetry and Music that soothe my soul
and the beauty all around me –
flowers still blooming in our Florida gardens and
the angle of the sun in the trees at a certain time of day,
and of course the beach!
And happy dogs and peaceful cats!
And friends, young and old!
Let the autumn light reach you.
©2021 Laine Quinn, photo of Spanish Moss in Live Oaks at Washington Oaks State Park.
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Does the Egret apologize to the fish?
Is the fish feeling like a victim, getting angry and huffy?
These two marvelous creatures are
living and dying on the same page.
No apologies.
No blame.
When we seek honestly that which nourishes us,
we thrive.
Reprinted from Laine's Blog, October, 2011
©LaineQuinn 2011
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October – harvests and bright moons, bales of hay and straw, pumpkins,
ghosts and goblins, spider webs, dressing up and acting out.
What was your favorite costume for Halloween?
Mine was Robin Hood!
I remember a burlap tunic, a bow and arrow and the perfect pointed hat.
I think that my mother made it for me.
Did you have a scary neighbor like we did?
Of course the only reason we were afraid of her was
because she was sooooooo old and she lived alone and
she had a cat.
Now I am old-ish and I live alone and I have a cat!
Scary!
Reprinted from Laine's Blog's very first year, 10 years ago!
This month I will do a retrospective of my favorite blog posts from those years!
I hope you enjoy them!
Happy Halloween!
Laine
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When memories pop up that remind you of your mistakes, missteps and lost opportunities –
do they come to make you feel bad all over again?
Or are they coming to maybe help you?
Help you to find forgiveness and compassion for your self?
To finally move off – move on – to the happiness you found in life –
the happy memories?
Sure it's all intermingled but remember the kindness, the love and the friendships,
the comraderie and the joys you found in nature – in being alive,
in reading a good book and sharing a good meal,
the good work that you did.
In the BIG tapestry of your life
the missteps would shrink beside all the good all the joy and happiness –
all the little things that made your life whole.
Funny that they come, those haunting memories,
but next time flood them with the joys and maybe they will cease and desist
eventually.
Maybe after forgiveness and compassion there is acceptance.
"Yeah, I did that , but I also did this and this and this…
I'm okay!"
You're okay!
I'm okay.
©2021 Laine Quinn
Tapestry, "Tree of Life", Astoria Grand at Wayfair.
A note to my email subscribers, the email address Laine@lainesblog.com is no longer active, an I have corrected it so that you can reply to my blog in your email and I will get it in my google account.
Thanks for all!
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What I know – what I know is –
Love will find a way.
Conflict in your life?
Say this –
Love will find a way.
Anxious?
Say this in your heart and mind –
Love will find a way.
It does.
It will.
Somehow it opens your heart and reminds you of the love there.
There is a song that goes like the first line of this post but I can't find it!
But there are 2 others with the title of "Love Will Find a Way" by Pablo Cruise and Lionel Ritchie.
In any event, Love will find a way!
©Laine Quinn 2021 Photo of sunrise with steady waves, one after the other, 09/08/2021
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I wanted to write about the unsettling times we find ourselves in
and then there was that date,
September 11, 2021
staring me in the eye.
In 2001, almost a week after that horrible day,
I was on a sailboat in Provincetown Harbor
and witnessed the most magnificent sunset
caused by the dust in the air all the way from
New York City to Cape Cod,
from that terrible tragedy at the World Trade Center Towers.
I lived in Provincetown at the time and my friend invited me out on the water.
Planes were still grounded and it was eerily quiet and peaceful, calm and beautiful.
We talked about how the U.S. behaved in the world
and how that created more enemies than friends.
The Country stood still for a while -
collective grief – shock – compassion – empathy.
And you know the rest of the story.
They said,
"Get on with your lives." "Go shopping."
We'll start a war or two and make it right.
A primitive response lacking insight, intelligence, even compassion for the victims.
It's not what their families wanted.
It wasn't misguided –
it was exactly what some people wanted.
Will America ever be the Beacon of Democracy she promised to be?
Not like that.
Not like that.
©Laine Quinn 2021, photo September 17th, 2001.
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How's it going?
Personally – within?
Take a moment to remember
that you are here now
with your very own life.
Your very own precious life.
How's it going?
Within?
Breathe.
©Laine Quinn2021
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Between cloudy nights
and thunderstorm days,
the moon only showed her face two times
for an entire month.
But the clouds – the clouds were wonderful!
building each day in the willing sky,
between sun and rain and rainbows!
©LaineQuinn 2021 Stormy July!
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