I twist my heart round again…
“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world” –Anne Frank, Last […]
Now is wonderful…
Let’s have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. “Now thyself” is more important than “know thyself.” Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we […]
Distinguishes the living from the merely breathing…
“The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing”–Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder
If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you…
The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said “Talk, child.” Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: “Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!” “Well, now that we have seen each other,” said the Unicorn, “if […]
Places all have their own characters….
“Places all have their own characters, and returning to a city where you have lived before is like coming home to an old friend. But the people begin to look the same; the same faces recurring in cities a thousand miles apart, the same expressions. The flat, hostile stare of the official. The curious look of the […]
I am athirst for faraway things…
“I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond” Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener, 1915 There have been a few shots from my bookshelf I know – I’ve been sick all week and spent quite a bit of time […]
The booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss…
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of […]
Each time I love, I find it still my own…
“ “A Portrait” Because my love is quick to come and go-A little here, and then a little there-What use are any words of mine to swearMy heart is stubborn, and my spirit slowOf weathering the drip and drive of woe?What is my oath, when you have but to bareMy little, easy loves; and […]
I want to have lived…
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” –Diane Ackerman,
Inclusion in Schmaps Niagara Falls Guide…
This is a photo I took at the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls. I was there with my husband to celebrate our 2 year wedding anniversary. The conservatory was amazing – I expected butterflies behind glass windows and in reality they were flying all around you, landing on shoulders and bringing about smiles and laughter […]