Poems, Prose, Photos & the Art of Being Human
The dragon lives in the sky, ocean,
marshes, and mountains; and the
mountains are also its cranium.
It's voice thunders and jingles like
copper pans. It breathes fire and
water; and sometimes the dragon
is one, sometimes many.
Maxine Hong Kingston
I broke
something today,
and I realized I should break
something once a week
to remind me
how fragile life is.
They threw us away
but forgot
we are seeds.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes' friend~
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera. ~ Edward Tufte
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Maxine Hong Kingston
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
My doctor asked if anyone in my family suffered from mental illness. I said, "No, we all seem to enjoy it."
Jeff’s daily humor
Is there a more mysterious idea for the artist than to imagine the way nature is reflected in an animal’s eye. How does a horse see the world? Or an eagle? Or a deer or a dog? What a miserable convention that leads us to place animals in a landscape that pertains to our eyes rather than plunging ourselves into the animal’s soul in an attempt to understand his vision of things.
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.
Attributed to many though Unknown Origin
Time is not a ribbon. It is a ball. So if you take a step in another direction, you change everything.
Adrian’s nana, Aileen Fenton (Briscoe)
Elizabeth Oakley Weaver 