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2006-11-23T18:05:00.001-07:00

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eternity

2006-11-23T07:24:00.001-07:00

"Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
William Blake

here and now

2006-11-22T07:06:00.001-07:00

"Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.”
~ Octavio Paz ~

seed humility

2006-11-21T07:10:00.001-07:00

“We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."
- Maya Angelou ~

unity

2006-11-20T07:10:00.001-07:00

"Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind."
Sigmund Freud

equal distance

2006-11-19T06:51:00.001-07:00

"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within."
~ Lillian Smith ~

faith

2006-11-18T07:37:00.001-07:00

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
~ Blaise Pascal ~

wrong train

2006-11-17T07:11:00.001-07:00

“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~

look up

2006-11-16T07:07:00.001-07:00

“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
~ Mark Twain ~

uncompromisingness

2006-11-15T06:35:00.001-07:00

"It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies."
Samuel Butler

dreaming

2006-11-14T06:37:00.001-07:00

“I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.”
~ Drew Barrymore ~

complete

2006-11-13T07:00:00.001-07:00

"There are images I need to complete my own reality."
Jim Morrison

weak barrier

2006-11-12T06:18:00.001-07:00

"... what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!"
Mary Wollstonecraft

fortune

2006-11-11T07:16:00.001-07:00

“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”
William Shakespeare

my religion

2006-11-10T06:52:00.001-07:00

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
~ Thomas Paine ~

Today Veteran's Day is being observed in the United States (and Remembrance Day is tomorrow for many other countries).

protect

2006-11-09T07:20:00.001-07:00

"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future."
John F. Kennedy

period

2006-11-08T06:21:00.001-07:00

"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
~ Don Delillo ~

pleasures

2006-11-07T06:40:00.001-07:00

“Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”
Christopher Marlowe

damage

2006-11-06T07:17:00.001-07:00

“There is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics."
Adrienne Rich

see accompanying blog entry

time

2006-11-01T06:13:00.001-07:00

I will be away from a computer until November 5th. There won't be any updates until then.

See you soon!

vanguard

2006-10-31T06:40:00.001-07:00

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars."
Orson Welles

time

2006-10-30T06:44:00.001-07:00

“Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.”
Plato

seed humility

2006-10-27T07:02:00.001-07:00

many

2006-10-26T06:55:00.001-07:00

“There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.”
Ray Charles

various view

2006-10-25T07:03:00.001-07:00

“A happy rural seat of various view:
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;
Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind,
Hung amiable—Hesperian fables true."
John Milton

2006-10-24T06:48:00.001-07:00

“And when he next doth ride abroad,
May I be there to see!”
William Cowper

bewitched

2006-10-23T07:02:00.001-07:00

“When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.”
Martin Luther

scenes

2006-10-22T06:52:00.000-07:00

“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”
~ Soren Kierkegaard ~

misty morn

2006-10-20T07:03:00.000-07:00

“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence."
~ Thomas Hood ~

vision

2006-10-19T07:20:00.000-07:00

“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
~ Henry Miller ~

ruddy

2006-10-18T06:30:00.000-07:00

"On woodlands ruddy with autumn
The amber sunshine lies;"
~ William Cullen Bryant ~

untimely

2006-10-17T08:08:00.000-07:00

"Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
~ William Shakespeare ~

grace

2006-10-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~ John Donne ~

projectiles

2006-10-15T08:04:00.000-07:00

“The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence."
~ D.H. Lawrence ~

hungry

2006-10-14T08:18:00.000-07:00

“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
~ Mother Teresa ~

one for the road

2006-10-13T07:14:00.000-07:00

“It's quarter to three there's no one in the place except you and me
So set 'em up Joe I've got a little story you oughta know
We're drinking my friend to the end of a brief episode
Just give me one for my baby and one more for the road”
~ Willie Nelson ~

intangible

2006-10-12T07:13:00.000-07:00

“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched”
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

holy edifice

2006-10-11T07:23:00.000-07:00

"Should I go to church
And see the holy edifice of stone”
~ William Shakespeare ~

quiet life

2006-10-10T07:23:00.000-07:00

"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
~ Albert Einstein ~

weathered

2006-10-09T06:55:00.000-07:00

"I have weathered the storm,
I have beaten out my exile."
~ Ezra Pound ~

harmony

2006-10-08T06:31:00.000-07:00

“There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

companionable

2006-10-07T05:57:00.000-07:00

“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

paradise

2006-10-06T07:06:00.000-07:00

“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see."
~ Edward Abbey ~

our fill

2006-10-05T07:00:00.000-07:00

"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short,
but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit,
and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."
~ John Donne ~

if only

2006-10-04T06:12:00.000-07:00

"If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!"
~ Antonio Porchia ~

echo

2006-10-03T06:53:00.000-07:00

"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
~T.S. Eliot ~

adorned

2006-10-02T07:16:00.000-07:00

"By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned,
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned!
~ Alexander Pope ~

high promise

2006-10-02T07:08:00.000-07:00

“Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.”
~ Horace ~

crazed

2006-10-01T06:31:00.000-07:00

“Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.”
~ Eugenio Montale ~

beautiful

2006-09-30T06:46:00.000-07:00

"How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and the heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!"
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

sweet simple things

2006-09-29T07:01:00.000-07:00

“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder ~

dialogues

2006-09-28T07:24:00.000-07:00

“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.”
~ Auguste Rodin ~

fragments of things

2006-09-27T06:18:00.000-07:00

"I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could."
~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~

madhouse

2006-09-26T07:04:00.000-07:00

“Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

violet-scented

2006-09-25T08:13:00.000-07:00

“It was a still afternoon--the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss: an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath."
~ George Eliot ~

subtle something

2006-09-24T06:36:00.000-07:00

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

why not

2006-09-23T06:49:00.000-07:00

“Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not."
~ George Bernard Shaw ~

the peace of wild things

2006-09-22T07:16:00.000-07:00

“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
~ Wendell Berry ~

say it hot

2006-09-21T07:40:00.000-07:00

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
~ D.H. Lawrence ~

why not

2006-09-20T07:54:00.000-07:00

“Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not."
~ George Bernard Shaw ~

deep roots

2006-09-19T07:35:00.000-07:00

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien ~

guiding star

2006-09-18T07:13:00.000-07:00

"Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me."
~ Ayn Rand ~

long live

2006-09-17T07:32:00.000-07:00

“What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins ~

joys

2006-09-16T07:12:00.000-07:00

“...she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company..."
~ Edith Wharton ~

sunshine

2006-09-15T07:40:00.000-07:00

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
~ Anthony J. D'Angelo ~

twin arrows

2006-09-14T06:53:00.000-07:00

"Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~

misunderstanding

2006-09-13T08:49:00.000-07:00

"I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error."
~ Sara Stein ~

gilded

2006-09-12T07:27:00.000-07:00

“My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy."
~ Mary Shelley ~

sleeps

2006-09-11T07:28:00.000-07:00

“The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

flee

2006-09-10T07:11:00.000-07:00

"To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~ Emily Dickinson ~

yesterday

2006-09-08T07:14:00.000-07:00

"Who has seen yesterday?"
~ Lord Byron ~

wide open

2006-09-07T07:17:00.000-07:00

"Wide open to the sun."
~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~

if only

2006-09-06T07:26:00.000-07:00

"If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!"
~ Antonio Porchia ~

fortune

2006-09-05T07:17:00.000-07:00

“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”
~ William Shakespeare ~

tread softly

2006-09-04T07:03:00.000-07:00

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
~ William Butler Yeats ~

satisfies

2006-09-03T06:54:00.000-07:00

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
~ Walt Whitman ~

all the difference

2006-09-02T07:18:00.000-07:00

"I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
~ Robert Frost ~

one touch

2006-09-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
~ William Shakespeare ~

renew

2006-08-31T07:24:00.000-07:00

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

opened in bloom

2006-08-30T10:44:00.000-07:00

“No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.""
- D.H. Lawrence ~

seed humility

2006-08-29T07:02:00.000-07:00

grace

2006-08-28T07:36:00.000-07:00

"For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
~ Wendell Berry ~

canvas

2006-08-27T07:27:00.000-07:00

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

my dog

2006-08-26T06:24:00.000-07:00

"He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; by the way he thumps his tail at my smallest smile; by the way he shows his hurt when I leave without taking him. (I think it makes him sick with worry when he is not along to care for me.) When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself. He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant. His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever - in case I need him. And I expect I will - as I always have. He is just my dog."
~ Gene Hill ~

music

2006-08-25T07:28:00.000-07:00

"There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."
~ Minnie Aumonier ~

a thousand fresh scents

2006-08-24T05:29:00.000-07:00

"In the country, the rain would have developed a thousand fresh scents, and every drop would have had its bright association with some beautiful form of growth or life."
~ Charles Dickens ~

freedom

2006-08-23T07:14:00.000-07:00

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open."
~ Gerald Raferty ~

tremble

2006-08-22T07:31:00.000-07:00

"And the wind, full of wantonness, wooes like a lover
The young aspen-trees till they tremble all over."
~ Thomas Moore ~

poetry

2006-08-21T07:02:00.000-07:00

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
~ John Keats ~

tricks

2006-08-20T07:25:00.000-07:00

"It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart."
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~

glorious ladder

2006-08-19T06:35:00.000-07:00

"When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling."
~ Lord Byron ~

points

2006-08-18T07:11:00.000-07:00

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."
~ Noelie Altito ~

substance

2006-08-17T07:13:00.000-07:00

“In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things.”
~ Ansel Adams ~

darkness

2006-08-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

“The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning. Large drops of rain soon began to fall, and, as the storm clouds came sailing onward, others supplied the void they left behind and spread over all the sky. Then was heard the low rumbling of distant thunder, then the lightning quivered, and then the darkness of an hour seemed to have gathered in an instant."
~ Charles Dickens ~

arch

2006-08-15T07:13:00.000-07:00

"Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."
~ Kublai Khan ~

storm crossing

2006-08-14T06:58:00.000-07:00

"Sky half cloudy. Great warm, soothing, magnificent mist-sheets are upon the mountains this morning, bathing the tree buds and myriads of quickening seeds with a gentleness of gesture and touch that has no word symbol on earth. How indescribable in texture they are, and how finely do they conform to the sloping and waving topography of the hill-bands!"
~ John Muir ~

invisible current

2006-08-13T07:22:00.000-07:00

"The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current."
~ Willa Cather ~

tiny glitters

2006-08-12T09:32:00.000-07:00

"...we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters."
~ James Thurber ~

shared dreams

2006-08-11T06:41:00.000-07:00

"We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life."
~ David Amram ~

desert sky

2006-08-10T07:01:00.000-07:00

"Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard."
~ Toni Collette ~