Practice

"Practice what you know, 

and it will help to make clear what now you do not know."

 ~Rembrandt

Bonfire

"When you do something, 

you should burn yourself completely, 

like a good bonfire, 

leaving no trace of yourself."

 ~ Shunryn Suzuki

Seed

"Every adversity, every failure, 
every heartache carries with it 
the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

~ Napoleon Hill

Balance

"Live a balanced life--

learn some and think some 

and draw and paint and sing 

and dance and play 

and work every day some."

 ~ Robert Fulghum

Joy

"Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud--We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flow all the charms or ear or sight

All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colors a suffusion from the light."

 ~ Samuel Coleridge

Drums

Happy birthday, Kayla

"May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers."

~Tina Fey

It is Kayla's birthday and the morning sun has given her a great gift...

Heart

"Above all, be true to yourself,

 and if you cannot put your heart in it, 

take yourself out of it.

 ~ Hardy D. Jackson

Little Things

"To those that have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, 

begin now to study the little things in your own door yard."

~ George Washington Carver

Happiness

Different perspectives, same sun...

From the back deck

From the top garden

From the side yard

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

 ~ George Santayana

Be True

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

 ~ Henry David Thoreau