Opposite Ends of the World

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and longitudes."-Henry David Thoreau

Looking Beyond

" When one door of happiness closes, another one opens;  but often we look so long at the closed door that we do  not see the one which has been opened for us..." - Helen Keller

The Changing Season

That night was the turning point in the season
we had gone to bed in summer and
we awoke in autumn;
for summer passes into autumn
in some imaginable point of time
like the turning of a leaf-Thoreau

Lost

"For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut

in this world to be lost...

Not til we are lost...do we begin to find ourselves."

-Thoreau, Walden