jaynie modin Curators Community • 14 days ago • 2 min readWins, Losses, LessonsSometimes life gives you exactly what you asked for. Other times, it gives you something else entirely… not the thing, but the lesson. I used to hate that. I wanted the neat result, not a lecture…jaynie modin Curators Community • 16 days ago • 4 min readSoul encounters you can't ignore"Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won't let us part." - Nikki Rowe. Some connections just impact your life and world differently.…jaynie modin Curators Community • 19 days ago • 4 min readThe Beautiful Madness“You can’t know this right now, but… your ragged, rugged honesty… your crazy, passionate, naked vulnerability… your trusting plunge into the unknown of life at every turn… your journey of love and…jaynie modin Curators Community • 19 days ago • 4 min readMoments That Stretch Time."Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour." - Walt Whitman It has always amused me how Friday seems to arrive with its own rhythm. The whole week…jaynie modin Curators Community • 20 days ago • 3 min readYour Why Lives in Others.“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. 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But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou Glass half full, make lemonade from lemons, you can see the roses or the thorns… we have all heard the…jaynie modin Curators Community • 23 days ago • 3 min readCheesy Business...Who on this earth does not love a little bit or a lot of CHEEEESE!!!! Cheese is one of those go to's that will never get a no from me and it does not matter it is accompanied with something or…jaynie modin Curators Community • 27 days ago • 4 min readThe Unfiltered SelfWriting is something which has been a large part of my life since I was a young girl… I still have notebooks from way back when, with some pretty deep, thoughts written in them for a young teen. I…jaynie modin Curators Community • 27 days ago • 2 min readWildflower ContemplationsIn a dream soaked garden where time forgets itself, the air glows with sorbet skies… rosewater pinks, sherbet oranges, and lilac whispers melting into one another like spilled joy. Blooms don’t grow…jaynie modin Curators Community • 27 days ago • 3 min readAdjusted to SelfWell there it is - it is Thursday already. It has been an interesting week and despite a relative amount of chaos along the way, I woke up this morning and I felt great! I contemplated all the…jaynie modin Curators Community • 29 days ago • 5 min readTime is free, but it's priceless.“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.” ― Harvey MacKay I became…jaynie modin Curators Community • last month • 2 min readJust a Monday ramble...To give of ourselves to others is one of the greatest gifts we are offered in this life, as is the encouragement and upliftment of those around us, but what so many of us forget is to retain the…jaynie modin Curators Community • last month • 5 min readSalt of the Earth.There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡. I have met all…jaynie modin Curators Community • last month • 4 min readWe are not Islands.I have always had enjoyed that tongue in cheek quote “You are unique, just like everybody else.” On the surface, it is somewhat amusing... but dig a little deeper, and you quickly realise that it’s…jaynie modin Curators Community • last month • 5 min readJust one of those Saturdays...Today has been one of those days in which I thought about, thinking about writing. I probably made my way through this cycle of thought, think and “possibly do” about a hundred times – not unlike a…jaynie modin Curators Community • last month • 5 min readEnough... IS...enough.“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” - Steve…jaynie modin Curators Community • last month • 4 min readMeaning in the MiddleTake a moment to realize how great it is that you’re working on it. Then step forward and offer your best efforts yet. — Ralph Marston Sometimes I have compared how life “develops” to the…jaynie modin Curators Community • last month • 6 min readThe Measure of a Moment.“I'll tell you what I miss. I miss that throbbing heart telling me to take a leap when the sky looks too dark. I miss the walk that I took in the narrow cobblestoned pathways that fumed of history…
