holga, holga

“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”  Gandhi

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

Come back soon...

There's an ocean between us.
You know where to find me.
You reach out and touch me.
I feel you in my own heart.
More than a lifetime
Still goes on forever.
But it helps to remember
You're only an ocean away. - Sarah Brightman

Suspended

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”    - Henry James

Final Reminder

Just four more days to send in your trailer pictures for 591Trailer Days!  We have received a great collection of pictures so far and we hope to include your picture in the exhibition.

Please send up to 5 pictures to 591trailerdays@gmail.com   The deadline is August 15, 2012. We will start publishing on September 1st.  Pictures should be 800 pixels wide, 72 dpi and jpg or png.

the wandering gnome...

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

this itself is the ultimate trial.” Joseph Campbell

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

light

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen

Independence Day

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility
 and the wings of independence."  ~Denis Waitly
                                                                                                                              

caged animal

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

feeling safe

I've been thinking a lot the last few weeks about feeling safe.  Not feeling safe in your own skin is a terrifying thing to feel and to watch happen to someone you love. I watched her slowly come undone and couldn't stop it.  It is still haunting me every minute of every day.  I want to make her feel safe but I know she has to learn to trust and believe in herself. She has to do the work...I can only love and support and hold and care for her until she comes back to us.

My beloved husband and best friend, Paul, makes me feel safe and I've been leaning a lot on him...And there are such good people that have been here for us, offering love and support and so much more...Thank you all!

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

being open

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.  If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.  But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

gifts

“They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

teach

Shadows

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.”
― William Shakespeare

harmony

“Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.” Lope de Vega

joy

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, 

even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.     -E.B. White

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