Hold....

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

Duality of being 'alone'

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. 

It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

DB

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Alan Ball

Invisibility of What We See...

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. 

That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. 

Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Antidepressant

Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. 

It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.

Jim Gaffigan

Celestial Direction....

“I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live.” 

― Alfusainey jallow

Every child is...

Every child is an artist. 

The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

Life is Better When You're Laughing...

Every Inch in Every Mile

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.” 

― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Trio in Disguise...

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Great Pumpkin Offering #2

Linus: Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see."

-It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Broken in New York City

Broken in New York City

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

Talking vs. Listening

Some people talk to animals. 

Not many listen though. 

That's the problem.

A. A. MILNE, Winnie-the-Pooh

All You Need is Love....

“Unconditional love is hard to compete with.” 
― Abbi Glines, Because of Low

The Duty and Uncertainty of War

“There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them. ” 
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

Shell Lodge

“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.” 
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

DreamState-Time

I once had a dream of time. So real. Fleeting. The only real escape was my acceptance of the idea...that time is not quite what it seems. Like an overpopulated Koi pond...time is the magical structure for the chaos of all that is beautiful and wrong with the world. Either we have too much space....or not enough.

The Electric Pond & Neon Snakes

Dream.....Dreamstate.....Let me say that my dreams are not meant to associate with my work...at least not in the moment anyway. Intuition for the moment, dreams for tomorrow.

Last night...Swimming for my life as I had fallen from a boat.....along with all of the other little ants...from the surging electrical field. Upon the shore I see a hole in the beach line....a cobra pit. These snakes were vicious and neon. Upon a fight with these snakes I quickly found myself pulled back into the water...I was bit...

Drowning. Electric Shock. SnakeBites.

I hope tonight is not a repeat.