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