Weightlessness

"It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness."

~ Isamu Noguchi

Pretend to Be Sane

"When dealing with the insane, 

it is best to pretend to be sane."

~ Hermann Hesse

Created Three Times

"A goal is created three times. 

First as a mental picture. 

Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. 

And third, when you take action towards its achievement."

~ Gary Ryan Blair

Heavy smoke this morning from the multiple wildfires burning thousands of acres across Western North Carolina.

Sung Together

"America is a tune. It must be sung together."

~ Gerald Stanley Lee

The sun is rising, but Kolo would rather watch the wild rabbits...

Light In the Heart

"Beauty is not in the face; 

Beauty is a light in the heart."

~ Kahlil Gibran

Capitalize On What Comes

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. 

Capitalize on what comes."

~ Zig Ziglar

Courage Is

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; 

courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

~ Winston Churchill

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Accepted the Sky

"I saw a star, I reached for it.
I missed, so I accepted the sky." 

~ Scott Fortino

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Orange

"Orange is the happiest color."

~ Frank Sinatra

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My Own Intuition

"I confidently deliver myself to my painting, 

and I feel most satisfied 

when I am sure that I'm not imitating anyone, 

but obeying my own intuition."

~ María Izquierdo

Nirvana is Now

"Heaven is home. Utopia is here. 

Nirvana is now."

~ Edward Abbey

After hundreds of miles of driving and sightseeing with my dearest childhood classmate Beverly, home still looks good.

Head On

"My only cure for suffering is to face it head on, 

grasp it round the neck and use it."

~ Mary Craig

What a Privilege

"What a privilege to be alive 

in this particular day and age!"

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Light of Your Love

"When you love someone 

and the light of your love 

shines upon them, 

they bloom."

~ Auntie Ma'iki Aiu Lake

I Will Try

"'I can’t do it' never yet accomplished anything; 

'I will try' has performed wonders."

~ George P. Burnham

Make the Most

"What I have learned from life 

is to make the most of what you have got."

~ Stephen Hawking

Hear the Voice of Invitation

"We must be careful and mindful 
to truly see what is going on, 
not through a narrow view, 
but a more open, panoramic view, 
so that we can hear the voice of invitation."
~ Issho Fujita

Running Out of Time

“Why do you write 

like you're running out of time?” 
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

Choose Joy

"Choose joy. 

There is always a choice, 

and a grand choice is joy."

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Hate

“Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
~ Richard M. Nixon

In Love with Life

"To be creative means to be in love with life.

You can be creative only if you love life 

enough that you want to enhance its beauty, 

you want to bring a little more music to it, 

a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it."

~ Osho 

Faith Is the Essence

"Peace of mind can heal anything. I believe faith is the essence, a simple solution, yet too hard for most people to practice."
~ Bernie S. Siegel


Waiting for the sunrise.
Asheville, Western 
North Carolina Mountains. 
"No Ka oi" 
Aloha to y'all

Faith in Humanity

"You must not lose faith in humanity. 

Humanity is an ocean; 

if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, 

the ocean does not become dirty."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do It Twice

Happy Birthday, Aunty Georgia

"If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice."

~ Jim Croce

Go Meta

"Step back a notch, 

or as we say, go meta, go one level higher — 

so don't try to prove your side in the debate, 

just describe the debate — 

and do that in a fair way."

~ Jimmy Wales

We Travel

Highway I-81 North-East of Radford, Virginia

"We travel, some of us forever, 

to seek other lives, other souls."
~ Anais Nin

Two Steps Ahead

"When everyone begins to laugh at you, 
then you know you are two steps ahead."
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Alive

"This moment, you're alive."

~ Joanna Macy

In Silence

"What we cannot speak about 

we must pass over in silence."

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Into the bucolic cove, I recognize my soul.
Diving connection, 
submerging
defying definition.

Rising.

My heart floats there,
mist, fog, the world.

Nature hums light

and the clarity of color.

Silence, except for the birds.
no words, no one.
Just understanding
and infinite gratitude:
I am and will be.

Remedy For Love

"There is no remedy for love, 

but to love more."

~ Henry David Thoreau

Poetry of the Heart

"Poetry is the music of the soul, 

and music is the poetry of the heart."

~ Darshan Singh

In Touch

"If you want to 'get in touch with your feelings,' 
fine, talk to yourself. 
We all do. 
But if you want to communicate 
with another thinking human being, 
get in touch with your thoughts."
~ William Safire

Thinking: August Gold

A Light From the Shadows

“All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.” 

~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Postpone a Sunrise

“You are living in a poem.” 
~ Naomi Shihab Nye

Next to you

sweet justice

even the rain

knows

water cleans life

with efficiency.

Rain may postpone

a sunrise

but memory still

remembers the sun.

Intoxicated With Color

"We become intoxicated with color, 

with words that speak of color, 

and with the sun that makes colors brighter."

~ Andre Derain