The Pleasure of A Dog

The great pleasure of a dog

 is that you may make a fool of yourself with him

 and not only will he not scold you,

 but he will make a fool of himself too.

 ~Samuel Butler

Forest or Trees?

Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

Straighten It Out

The world is perfect.  It's a mess.

It has always been a mess.

We aren't going to change it.

Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

Joseph Campbell

i carry your heart

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in

my heart) i am never without it (anywhere

i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear

no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

Poetry of Earth

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

Never Alone- Never Helpless

You are never alone or helpless.

The force that guides the stars guides you too.

Shirii Shirii Anandamurti

Travel With New Eyes

The real voyage of discovery

consists not in seeking new landscapes

but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Foolish Things Enthusiastically

You will do foolish things,

but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

Photo by MW at N's 30th

Quick Relief

For fast-acting relief,

try slowing down.

Lily Tomlin

Keep It For The Future

Take nothing but pictures.

Leave nothing but footprints.

Not Our Inheritance- It Is On Loan

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,

we borrow it from our children.

Old Indian Proverb

Focus! Focus!

Life is short.

God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

Robert Brault

Building Bridges

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Ellison

The Invincible Summer

In the depth of winter,

I finally learned that within me

there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Children Teach Us

While we try to teach our children all about life,

our children teach us what life is all about.

Angela Schwindt

On Eagle's Wings

And He will raise you up on eagle's wings

Bear you on the breath of dawn

Make you to shine like the sun

And hold you in the palm of His hand.

Lyrics based on Isaiah 40:31

Thin Ice

If you're going to walk on thin ice,

you might as well dance.

This Fine Place

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for,

and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway