welcome fall

"...I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes..." e.e. cummings  

presenting, the present. moment. now.

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope." Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City

"Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is." Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox

"Today is the first and last day of forever." Stephenie Meyer, Breaking

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now." Christopher Paolini, Eldest

"The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows." Tim Lebbon, Face

"Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand--
I turn my face away;
I'll not invite her to my home--
I only love Today."
Ardelia Cotton Barton, "Today"

"We should not expect all the present to be as good as the best of the past." Lewis F. Korns, Thoughts

"The present is the food of the future." Edward Counsel, Maxims

quotes courtesy of: www.notable-quotes.com

oh happy day

"God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without
calculation, without procrastination, love." Henry Drummond

"We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other
humans...in it's deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the
Creator in us." Kallistos Ware

refreshed

sometimes i find a refreshing read...

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
William Shakespeare


"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." Howard Zinn

Days

lovers. . .

My brother got married. and it was the most lovely and magical wedding I've ever been to.

photos courtesy of DKweddings.net

2 things.

1. my cat died. this is my favorite photo of her.


2.
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death." Robert Fulghum

Quiet Girl by Langston Hughes
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.

cereal.

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." Mother Teresa

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." -Gilda Radner

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” Tom Robbins

todos los personas.

POEM FOR EVERY PERSON
by John Thomas Wood

I will present you
parts
of
my
self
slowly
if you are patient and tender.
I will open drawers
that mostly stay closed
and bring out places and people and things
sounds and smells, loves and frustrations, hopes
and sadnesses,
bits and pieces of decades of my life
that have been grabbed off
in chunks
and found lying in my hands.
they have eaten
their way into my memory,
carved their way into
my heart.
altogether-you or i will never see them-
they are me.
if you regard them lightly,
deny that they are important
or worse, judge them
i will quietly, slowly,
begin to wrap them up,
in small pieces of velvet,
like worn silver and gold jewelry,
tuck them away
in a small wooden chest of drawers
and close.

brown town + black&white nights

Enthusiasm moves the world.

~ J. Balfour

wrappers.

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
Vincent Van Gogh

slap me in the knee.

last photo = one of my brother's find's ... love it.





artist: David Shrigley

bud.

"...I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented..."
- Elie Wiesel

squash.

my thought of yesterday: often times... it seems as though when we feel we lack freedom- we tend make some of our most destructive decisions. and often times, in the midst of immense freedom, we lack the wisdom to cherish the precious moments.



“My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.” Oscar Wilde

"...now i long for one of those old, meandering, dry, uninhabited roads, which lead away from towns...
where travelers are not too often to be met;
where my spirit is free;
where the walls and fences are not cared for;
where your head is more in heaven
than your feet are on earth..."
- henry david thoreau

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -- there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
Joan Didion

"1. Be Proactive.
2. Begin with the end in mind.
3. Put first things first.
4. Think win win.
5. Seek first to understand . . . then to be understood.
6. Synergize.
7. Sharpen the saw."
Stephen R. Covey

"You cannot make it as wandering generality. you must become a meaningful specific."
Zig Ziglar

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau

"Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed."
Corita Kent

"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season.
It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.
It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow.
Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime." W.E.B. Du Bois