Sometimes...

Sometimes a direct experience of the sacred comes when we simply bring our full attention to an ordinary moment. ~ oriah mountain dreamer

Awaken...

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.

exactly....

 

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." ~Joseph Campbell

KINDNESS

Throughout this toilsome world, alas!

Once and only once I pass;

If a kindness I may show,

If a good deed I may do

To a suffering fellow man,

Let me do it while I can.

No delay, for it is plain

I shall not pass this way again.

~anon

DISCOVER

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~andre gide

CHAPTERS OF LIFE

rainbow milifiore earrings---my favorite beads to use!

Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard

BEING STRONG

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. ~Maya Angelou

No Excuses

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind." ~Dorothea Lange

Oh how true this is! For photography and for living!

With strokes that ring clear and metallic, the hour
to touch me bends down on its way:
my senses are quivering. I feel I've the power--
and I seize on the pliable day.

Not a thing was complete till by me it was eyed,
every kind of becoming stood still.
Now my glances are ripe and there comes like a bride
to each of them just what it will.

There's nothing so small but I love it and choose
to paint it gold-groundly and great
and hold it most precious and know not whose soul it may liberate...

~Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't have many words today. Somehow this blog started messing up and after many attempts of trying to fix it I had to start over. Fortunately I only had a couple of entries, since it's brand new. A bit discouraged today...but nothing I won't pull through.

Some parting words....

"It is always my wish that you might find enough patience within yourself to endure, and enough innocence to have faith...Believe me, life is right in all cases." ~yet another Rainer Maria Rilke