Wild and Precious Life

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

~Mary Oliver

Here's to a Blessed New Year!

Winter...

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
~Edith Sitwell

Happy Winter Solstice!

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain

Luck

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
~Dalai Lama

Cry...

Cry you did not.
~Origami Yoda

Whilst the Leaves

Cool murmur of water through apple-wood
Troughs without number
The whole orchard fills, whilst the leaves
Lend their music to slumber.
~Sappho

Crow

On a bare branch,

a crow has landed:

autumn nightfall.
~Basho

Love Rain

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. ~Billie Holiday

October

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. ~Thomas Wolfe

A Ding

I want to put a ding in the universe. ~Steve Jobs

Forgiveness

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. ~Emma Goldman

Autumn

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. ~John Burroughs

Happy Autumnal Equinox!

Friends

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

Erotica

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
~Gloria Steinem

The Rose

But she that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. ~Anne Bronte

Go For It

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. ~Bill Cosby

Art

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman ~Jean-Michel Basquiat

Helping

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ~Audrey Hepburn

Stand Up

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

Joy

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~Rumi

Poet

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~W. H. Auden

Differences

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. ~Audre Lorde

Jealousy

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. ~Rodney Dangerfield

Summer

In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams

Stop Struggling

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. ~Pema Chödrön

Circle

I seemed to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. ~Jeanette Winterson

Write

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
~Anaïs Nin

A Woman

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. ~Gilda Radner

Friendship

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle

Sorrow

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

Becoming

As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I am in a love relationship that does not lead another person to them self, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming. ~Leo Buscaglia

Awakening

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ~Adrienne Rich

Writer

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. ~Grace Paley

Blaze

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished. ~Luisa Sigea

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value. ~Jeanette Winterson

Travel

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. ~Paul Theroux

Strength

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~Audre Lorde

Springtime

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. ~Zen Proverb

Happy Spring Equinox!

Our Journey

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. ~Lillian Smith

A Cat

There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone. ~Louis Camuti

Old Men

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ~George Chapman

Let Love Be There

The lesson, really, is that simple, just to clean your heart and to let love be there. ~Immaculée Ilibigiza

With joy, I say hello after a spell of being away. I'm back from my incredible 3-month trek through S. Europe. So many experiences and kilometers later, I hope you all are well. Peace~