Carol A. Hand
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I’m grateful to be standing, here, witnessing autumn’s delight
long grass bending with the weight of sparkling dew, a welcome sight
the last of the clematis flowers colorfully translucent in the morning, bright
on our “pale blue dot” spinning and circling our sun, today sharing life-giving light
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Voices from the Margins 
Lovely, Carol.
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Thank you, Cynthia. I love your blooming flowers, too, and your delightful story about the miraculous amaryllis. ❤
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Wonderful words & charming autumn garden. Perfect for a cup of nice Earl grey tea. 🙂
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Thank you for your kind and lovely comments, Maria. How I wish we could share a cup of tea and conversation. 🙂
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Me too, dear Carol….Well…when people have the same wish it comes true! At least we could have a chat in skype for the moment. I think it would be great! 🙂
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Thanks for sharing that reflection, Carol. It was through Carl Sagan’s writings that I first began to see our world as one. While we continue to fight among ourselves for dominance and a larger share, we are bound together on Spaceship Earth.
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Such thoughtful, crucially important insights, Rosaliene. Thank you for speaking to the importance of seeing the world as one. 🙂
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Carol, a delightful last day of September and thank you for sharing with us! I can’t believe a clematis is still in bloom, translucent indeed! 😀❤️
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Thank you for your kind and lovely comments, Annika. The blooming clematis is a wonderful autumn gift. I am grateful I had a chance to share it with others today. ❤
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Lovely warm words
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Thank you for your lovely comments, Denzil, and for sharing your beautiful haiku about autumn’s acorn rain. 🙂
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Thanks Carol
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Thank you, Carol, for your poetry. And thank you for this Sagan piece! Both are wonderful!
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Thank you for your kind and lovely comments, Dave, and for posts that continue raising awareness about the need to think deeply about Sagan’s cogent warnings about the foolishness and costs of wars for domination of our one pale blue dot. 🙂
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Lovely poem and the shout out to Carl Sagan is great. I think for our generation he was the first person that made us think globally.
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments, Bernadette. Sagan’s wisdom and brilliance remain among the most precious of gifts. ❤
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As always, Carol, you leave us beautiful thoughts.
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Thank you for your kind, lovely words, Buster. Sending my best wishes to you and your “old pappy.” 🙂
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soulf food
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Thank you, Paul. ❤
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. I signed up for the various postings. I went to the Awakin.org sight…What an inspiring read.
You are part of a hopeful group of humans, dear Carol. But I struggle to keep a tenuous grasp on consistent hopeful positivity when Minnesotans cannot even reliably commit to working(as in work: to ACT)) on preventing sulphur mining in our far North count
But, your words are always a light.
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Thank you for such thoughtful comments, Patty, and for sharing important concerns about events here where we live. It is hard for many of us to see hopeful possibilities sometimes, yet it helps to have friends who remind us, as you do for me, to find the beauty around us and within others. ❤
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A lot of people think of Carl Sagan as simply a brainiac. He was a beautiful person.
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Yes, Carl Sagan was truly unique. He interwove kindness, wisdom, and brilliance into his work and his teachings, a shining example of how to use our gifts with compassion for others.
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You got that right. 😀
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So very lovely dear Carol. I’m glad you are standing there witnessing all those things too. 🙂 ❤
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Thank you for your kind, gentle words, Natalie. ❤
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My pleasure dear Carol❌⭕️❤️❤️❤️
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Lovely Carol, I’m glad to be a witness to autumn too.
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Thank you for your lovely comments, Andrea, and for painting the beauty of the season so eloquently in your work.
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Thank you for sharing a beautiful, peaceful autumn photo, Superdugue. 🙂
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