Slow

"In an age of speed,

I began to think, nothing
could be more invigorating
than going slow." - Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness

Time for a Massage

Another Chance

 

"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet."
—L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Still Point

 

"At the still point, there the dance is."
—T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

A Perfect TIme

"...and in that moment,
I SWEAR WE WERE
INFINITE."- Steven Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

When She Stirred The Jam

"As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought 
Two Thoughts 
and the Two Thoughts 
he thought were these:

 a) Anything can happen to anyone. 
and 
b) It is best to be prepared."
—Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

An Inspiration

"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Every Minute of My Life

 

 "Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life."
—Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Sacred

"An adventure is a transgression you don't regret." - Kate Wheeler

Like the Sun

"He stepped down, trying
not to look at her,
as if she were the sun,
yet he saw her,
like the sun,
even without looking." -Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

It's A Good Look

I Am

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am."
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Coco

 Coco Chanel

 
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
—J. D. Salinger, "A Girl I Knew"

Something New From Something Old

"In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars."
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Look at the Stars

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Let the Shenanigan's begin!

Happiness

"at any rate, that is happiness;
to be dissolved into something 
COMPLETE and GREAT." -Willa Cather, My Antonia

Life's Surprises

"Life keeps
surprising us.
That's what 
makes it so
 rich with possibility."  -Helen Mirren

Biddings For A Loved One

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.  May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest  where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you--- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls." - Edward Abbey

For YOU

"What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine " - Oprah Winfrey

New Discoveries

"Most new discoveries are suddenly -- seen
things that were always there." - Susanne K.Langer

Feed Me Please

Who You Really Are

"Grow up 
and become
who you really are." 

 

Life

"...because 
when you 
stop and look
around, this 
Life is pretty
Amazing." 

 

Only Once

 Image: Alexandre Maller


"People live
through such pain only once;
pain comes
again, but it
finds a
tougher
surface." -Willa Cather

Into The PINK of Things

A Sneak Preview

 "Imagination 
is everything.
It's the preview of life's
coming attractions." -Albert Einstein

A Childhood Response

"Snow provokes responses
that reach right back
to childhood."

Abby Normal

"I tried to be normal once.
Worse two minutes of my life!"

 Feeling more like myself again. Watermelon girl c. 1970's at my office in the Physics department.
 

Cogito Ergo Cogito

"Dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo sum."
(I doubt therefore I think, I think therefore I am)
-Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

Special Sounds

"Stay close
 to
any sounds
that
make you
glad
you're alive."

It Won't Be Boring!

A Million Little Suns

"The snow is sparkling like
a million little suns." -Lama Willa