feet

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to  go.   -Dr. Seuss                                                                                     

night...

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.    -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

finding my way home...

...on a Saturday morning in Perry, Georgia



Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

courage

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.     Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

home

Where thou art...that is home.   ~Emily Dickinson

the wandering gnome...

“If you realize what the real problem is - losing yourself - you realize that 

this itself is the ultimate trial.” Joseph Campbell

connected

“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”  - Albert Einstein

shadows and light

 You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.  ~Arlo Guthrie

hitting rock bottom

              “What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

rekindling

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” 

                                                                                                                                Albert Schweitzer

until

“Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.”

gathered

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future. 

The arms of love gather you together. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

the sound of wings

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

The soul that knows it not, knows no release

From little things:

Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,

Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear

The sound of wings.

 - Amelia Earhart