Orange

"Orange is the happiest color."

~ Frank Sinatra

♥ My Society6 Art Gallery \(‾◡◝ )/ 

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