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Homeless

2012-01-27T07:31:00.000-08:00

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

~Jan Schakowsky

Snow

2012-01-20T12:58:00.000-08:00

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

~J. B. Priestley

Good Composition

2012-01-13T08:09:00.000-08:00

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

~Robert Henri

Spiritual Path

2012-01-06T07:23:00.001-08:00

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring to them the transformative power of our heart.

~Jack Kornfield

Wild and Precious Life

2011-12-30T07:55:00.001-08:00

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...

2011-12-23T08:17:00.001-08:00

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.

2011-12-16T07:35:00.001-08:00

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

2011-12-09T11:11:00.000-08:00

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

Cry...

2011-12-02T07:43:00.001-08:00

Cry you did not.
~Origami Yoda

Whilst the Leaves

2011-11-18T07:45:00.000-08:00

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

Crow

2011-11-11T08:32:00.000-08:00

On a bare branch,

a crow has landed:

autumn nightfall.
~Basho

Love Rain

2011-11-04T08:17:00.000-07:00

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

October

2011-10-26T11:51:00.000-07:00

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

2011-10-07T12:45:00.000-07:00

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

Forgiveness

2011-09-30T10:01:00.001-07:00

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

Autumn

2011-09-23T09:49:00.000-07:00

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

Happy Autumnal Equinox!

Friends

2011-09-16T08:37:00.000-07:00

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

Erotica

2011-09-09T10:36:00.001-07:00

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

The Rose

2011-08-26T07:36:00.000-07:00

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

Go For It

2011-08-19T11:46:00.000-07:00

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

Art

2011-08-12T08:54:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-08T13:22:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-29T08:15:00.000-07:00

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

Joy

2011-07-22T07:55:00.001-07:00

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

Poet

2011-07-15T08:01:00.001-07:00

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

Differences

2011-07-08T07:37:00.000-07:00

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

Jealousy

2011-07-01T07:40:00.001-07:00

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

2011-06-24T07:57:00.001-07:00

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

Stop Struggling

2011-06-17T07:10:00.001-07:00

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

2011-06-10T08:26:00.000-07:00

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

Write

2011-06-03T09:04:00.000-07:00

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

A Woman

2011-05-27T07:45:00.000-07:00

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

2011-05-20T07:06:00.001-07:00

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

Sorrow

2011-05-13T09:42:00.000-07:00

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

2011-05-06T07:26:00.001-07:00

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

2011-04-29T07:48:00.001-07:00

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

Writer

2011-04-22T07:27:00.001-07:00

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

Blaze

2011-04-15T09:34:00.001-07:00

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

Risk

2011-04-08T08:37:00.001-07:00

What you risk reveals what you value. ~Jeanette Winterson

Travel

2011-04-01T07:23:00.001-07:00

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

Strength

2011-03-25T08:46:00.000-07:00

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

2011-03-21T08:05:00.001-07:00

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

Happy Spring Equinox!

Our Journey

2011-03-15T08:52:00.001-07:00

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

2011-02-18T09:56:00.001-08:00

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

Old Men

2011-02-11T11:44:00.000-08:00

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

Let Love Be There

2011-02-08T12:40:00.001-08:00

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~

Military

2010-09-03T08:12:00.001-07:00

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988

Competitions

2010-08-27T07:43:00.001-07:00

Competitions are for horses, not artists. ~Bela Bartok

Brother

2010-08-18T10:24:00.000-07:00

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. ~Marc Brown

Just spent 10 days with my nephews. Sibling rivalry is a mix of challenges and sharing.

The Sea

2010-07-30T07:25:00.001-07:00

The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ~Jacques Cousteau

Walking

2010-07-23T07:47:00.001-07:00

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres

Fear

2010-07-16T07:48:00.001-07:00

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. ~George Sewell

Summer Day

2010-07-09T10:21:00.001-07:00

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

Solo Travel

2010-07-02T07:46:00.001-07:00

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ~Freya Stark

Linked

2010-06-25T08:05:00.001-07:00

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased. ~Janez Drnovsek

Optimist

2010-06-18T07:33:00.001-07:00

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ~Peter Ustinov

Accommodation

2010-06-11T08:16:00.001-07:00

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ~Jimmy Carter

Artists

2010-06-04T08:21:00.001-07:00

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. ~Nikki Giovanni

No War

2010-05-28T08:20:00.000-07:00

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ~Carl Sandburg

Free

2010-05-21T07:33:00.001-07:00

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable. ~June Jordan

Dreams

2010-05-14T07:56:00.001-07:00

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias Canetti

The Edge

2010-05-07T07:21:00.001-07:00

Life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go. ~Thoreau

Fun

2010-04-30T09:46:00.001-07:00

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. ~Katharine Hepburn

Forgive

2010-04-23T08:26:00.001-07:00

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. ~Suzanne Somers

Liberation

2010-04-16T07:52:00.000-07:00

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted, and shaky - that's called liberation. ~Pema Chödrön

Dyke

2010-04-09T07:57:00.001-07:00

I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, "Who's the dyke in the dress? ~Karen Ripley

Believe

2010-04-02T07:27:00.001-07:00

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail. ~Dorothea Brande

Happy Easter!

Anger

2010-03-26T08:09:00.001-07:00

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. ~Naomi Campbell

Siblings

2010-03-19T08:18:00.001-07:00

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb

Let Go

2010-03-12T08:28:00.001-08:00

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~Lao Tzu

Silence

2010-03-05T07:53:00.001-08:00

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Truth

2010-02-26T08:14:00.001-08:00

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. ~Claude Adrien Helvetius

Travel

2010-02-19T07:29:00.001-08:00

Travel is more than the seeing of sights. It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~Miriam Beard

Love

2010-02-12T07:17:00.001-08:00

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh

Happy Valentine's Day to All!

Desire

2010-02-05T07:44:00.001-08:00

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ~Epicurus

Twins

2010-01-29T07:59:00.001-08:00

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ~Josh Billings

Jealousy

2010-01-22T07:46:00.000-08:00

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ~Erica Jong

Take a Chance

2010-01-15T09:37:00.001-08:00

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

~George Bernard Shaw

Winter

2010-01-08T08:37:00.001-08:00

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson

Ocean Drop

2009-12-30T12:54:00.001-08:00

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~Mother Teresa

Happy New Year to All!

Change

2009-12-18T08:00:00.001-08:00

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ~Maya Angelou

Blessed

2009-12-11T07:48:00.001-08:00

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.

~Hannah Senesh

Happy Hanukkah!

Style

2009-12-04T07:29:00.001-08:00

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ~Orson Welles

Unity

2009-11-26T08:44:00.001-08:00

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~Baha'u'llaha

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

Salt Water

2009-11-20T08:06:00.001-08:00

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen

Just Go

2009-11-13T07:31:00.001-08:00

Just go out there and do what you have to do. ~Martina Navratilova

Meditation

2009-11-06T08:36:00.001-08:00

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance. ~Pema Chödrön

Autumn's Fire

2009-10-30T08:02:00.001-07:00

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. ~William Allinghamy

Harvest

2009-10-23T07:40:00.001-07:00

Believe in yourself, your neighbors, your work, your ultimate attainment of more complete happiness. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in Autumn. ~B. C. Forbes

Drum Dance

2009-10-16T10:05:00.000-07:00

He who cannot dance will say: "The drum is bad”.
~African Proverb

Rainbow

2009-10-09T07:50:00.000-07:00

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
~Rita Mae Brown

Smile

2009-10-02T08:08:00.001-07:00

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney

Praying

2009-09-25T08:10:00.000-07:00

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think. ~Thich Nhat Hanh 

Happy Autumn!

Music

2009-09-18T07:45:00.000-07:00

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. ~Zoltan Kodaly

Repetition

2009-09-11T07:27:00.001-07:00

Repetition is the mother of learning. ~Russian proverb

Ocean

2009-09-04T07:36:00.001-07:00

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. ~H. P. Lovecraft

Walk Alone

2009-08-28T07:45:00.001-07:00

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Twice the Child

2009-08-21T08:15:00.001-07:00

An old man is twice the child. ~ William Shakespeare

Courage

2009-08-17T11:19:00.001-07:00

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~Ruth Gordon

Just back from vacation and spending 9 days with my nephews (7 & 9), I needed courage at times :)

Presence

2009-07-31T07:39:00.001-07:00

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~Thich Nhat Hanh 