alley in ams

remake

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

-Mahatma Gandhi

different

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

-Thomas Merton

painted light

the sea

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

deAppel @ The Grand

disloyal

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.

-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom

corner

death

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

-Rabindranath Tagore

'kitchen'

our nature

“we can no longer afford to have petty, controlling, abusive, relationships in which denial is supported. We do this to ourselves, we do it to our families, our neighbors and we do it to nature.”

- the source

fear

I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face... I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

'doubledutch'

paddling

As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

-Katharine Hepburn

seeking

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

-Marcel Proust

night/light

old

"It was good for the skin to touch the earth, and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth... The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing, and healing."

-Chief Luther Standing Bear, TETON SIOUX

hardware/garden

in the garden

warrior heart

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart.

-Jack Kornfield

green spot

afterwards rain

an opening

having a show of the digital 'screenprints' today - the 'First Friday' in July from 5-7 @ El Rancho Grande 3608 Falls Rd @ 36th...it's a big ranch!

coffee, orchid, scissors

illumination

Gd does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

-Dag Hammarskjold