look up

“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

"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

“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

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

weak barrier

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

fortune

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

my religion

"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

"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

"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

“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

“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

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

See you soon!

vanguard

"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

“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

“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 ~

many

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

various view

“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

next

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

bewitched

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

scenes

“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 ~