rest if you must - 2013.10.26

Let me not beg
for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to counquer it.

~ Rabindranath Tagore




godot - 2013.10.19

The wait is long.
My dream of you does not end

~ Nuala O'Faolain






a secret kind of sad - 2013.10.06

Every man has his secret sorrows
which the world knows not;
and often times we call a man cold
when he is only sad.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




wanderkind - 2013.10.05

Not all those who wander are lost.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien





disturb us - 2013.09.16

Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

~ Sir Francis Drake





the smell of bees - 2013.09.04

Bees do have a smell, you know,
and if they don't they should,
for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

~ Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine


brave - 2013.08.31

Kept on the inside and no sunlight,
Sometimes a shadow wins.
But i wonder what would happen if you
Say what you want to say
And let the words fall out

~ Sara Bareilles
"Brave"


we cast our wishes into the river and watched it carry our dreams - 2013.08.31

No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it is not the same river
and he is not the same man.

~ Heraclitus





a great way to fly - 2013.08.17


the food i grew up with - 2013.07.20


an hour's worth of infinity - 2013.07.13

To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.

~ William Blake




talk is cheap - 2013.07.09

Talk is cheap
until you see your phone bill.





th1rt3en - 2013.05.12

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

~ Rudyard Kipling






kite dreams - 2013.05.03

Throw your dreams into space
like a kite
and you do not know
what it will bring back,
a new life
a new friend,
a new love,
a new country.

~ Anais Nin





through hell - 2013.04.27

If you're going through hell,
keep going

~ Winston Churchill





cleaning the doors of perception - 2013.04.21

The moment one gives close attention to any thing,
even a blade of grass,
it becomes
a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent
world in itself

~ Henry Miller





high flight - 2013.02.23

Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

~ John Magee
"High Flight"