Written On The Bathroom Wall

"Sometimes beauty is easy.

Sometimes you don't have to try at all.

Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.

Sometimes there's poetry written

right on the bathroom wall."

~Ani Difranco

Safe

"Oh the comfort,

the inexpressible comfort

of feeling safe with a person
having neither to weigh thoughts

nor measure words

but pouring them all right out

just as they are."

~Dinah Maria Mulock

More As God Does

"Remember for just one minute of the day,

it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, 

for She knows your true royal nature."
~Hafiz 

Today's Blog...

 ...is brought to you by the numbers "4" and "2".

... to remain vulnerable...

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches.

If suffering alone taught, 

then all the world would be wise,

since everyone suffers.

To suffering must be added

mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness

and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

~Joseph Addison

Alone

"It is good to be solitary,

for solitude is difficult;

that something is difficult

must be a reason the more for us to do it."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Simplicity

 

 “Receive with simplicity

everything that happens to you.” 

~Rashi

Today's Blog...

is brought to you by the letter "F"

Playing

Being able to play without a goal

Being able to play aimlessly...

is very important to creativity.

For, one discovers all manner of useful things

on the way to nowhere in particular.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Real Courage

"The wise man in the storm prays God, 

not for safety from danger, 

but for deliverance from fear."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion

"It is easier to perceive error than
to find truth, for the former lies
on the surface and is easily seen,
while the latter lies in the depth,
where few are willing to search for it."

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

More fun with cell phone cameras

'Member this?

 

They just keep getting better!

Matriarch

"There is a fountain of youth:

it is your mind, your talents,
the creativity you bring to your life
and the lives of people you love.
When you learn to tap this source,
you will have truly defeated age."
~Sophia Loren

That's Zelma Lee McClain Mills above,

my aunt, daughter of  my paternal grandparents (natch)

Leslie and Frannie McClain.

What a spunky 90-something year old matriarch.
:-D

Shining Light

 Never fear shadows.

They simply mean there is a light

shining somewhere nearby.

~Unknown

The Love of The Art

I've entered the Spring Expo over at 

Infinity Art Gallery 

and

hung some work at Unity this month too.

Here are the suspects but click through

to enjoy all the stuff at Infinity Art Gallery

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 She is a window, an

ever changing though constant reflection of her Self,

viewed and viewing, in her own unique beauty, in age and wear.

Endless to allow and reflect,

now and always, never and sometimes.

The welcoming emptiness

here in the presence of her ripening spectrum is

indeed, open to fulfillment.

Reinvention, re-creation, renewing, realizing, reflecting.  Rich.

The Universe Abhors A Vacuum

Exciting, and at times

Elusive

Now is always, never and sometimes.

Greetings From Austin

Home is not where you live,

but where they understand you.

~Christian Morganstern

Home is the place

where it feels right 

to walk around without shoes.

~Unknown

I long, as does every human being

to be at home wherever I find myself.

~Maya Angelou