August 2016

it's never too late to start the day over

July 2016
need i say more
need i say more

June 2016
Experience is simply
the name
we give our mistakes
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply
the name
we give our mistakes
Oscar Wilde

May 2016
Adopt the pace of nature
her secret is patience
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature
her secret is patience
Ralph Waldo Emerson

April 2016
Youth is wasted
on the young
Youth is wasted
on the young

March 2016
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world
and the best we can find in our travels
is an honest friend
Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world
and the best we can find in our travels
is an honest friend
Robert Louis Stevenson

February 2016
The happiest people
don't have the best of everything
They just make the
best of everything they have
The happiest people
don't have the best of everything
They just make the
best of everything they have
January 2016

These are lovely words
trust takes time to build
and no time to destroy...
February 2015

If you take time in the short run
you will save time in the long run
tweetlebird
January 2015

When I do good
I feel good
When I do bad
I feel bad
That is my religion
Abraham Lincoln
December 2014

I will not live an unlived life,
I will not live in fear of falling,
or catching fire
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living
to open me
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing,
a torch,
a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live
Dawna Markova
November 2014

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand that is dealt you represents determinism
the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
October 2014

The greatest weariness
comes from work not done
Eric Hoffer
September 2014

You can't create experience
You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
August 2014

The vision must be followed by the venture...
It is not enough to stare up the steps,
we must step up the stairs
Vance Havner
July 2014

Success is going from failure to failure
without losing your enthusiasm
June 2014

There are two ways to live your life
One is as though nothing is a miracle
The other is as though everything is a miracle
Albert Einstein
May 2014

Have Patience
All things are difficult before they are easy
Saadi
April 2014

Have no fear of perfection
you will never achieve it
Salvador Dali
March 2014

From caring
comes courage
Lao Tzu
February 2014
January 2014

Dance like no one is watching.
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt and
live like it's heaven on earth.
William Purkey
December 2013

Put yourself into life and never loose your openness,
your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life,
and things will come your way!
Frederico Fellini
November 2013
October 2013

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not twist them to fit our own image.
Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
September 2013

The ultimate goal!!!
Doggie Drivers License Acquisition!!!!!!
The real achievers are those who,
in the dreary pit of sacrifice,
still smile up at the goal.
Richelle E. Goodrich
August 2013

Readiness to Fall
is the Confidence to Walk
July 2013

Air Force memorial in DC
Without ambition one starts nothing.
Without work one finishes nothing.
The prize will not be sent to you.
You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 2013

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,
it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
May 2013

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
April 2013

Isis showing some correct muscle development!!!
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve.
Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle.
It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth
March 2013

Be Kind,
for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
February 2013

Baby Rue
Baby Dream
Baby Goal
A Goal is a Dream with a Deadline
Napoleon Hill
January 2013

Mountains cannot be surmounted
except by winding paths.
Johann van Goethe
December 2012

Photo was taken by Marti J Rhea,
Photoart by Marti, LLC
The air of heaven is that
which blows between
a horse’s ears
Arabian proverb
November 2012

and here is a Brazilian stallion,
Signo, who exemplifies this quote!!
God first made Man.
He thought better of it and made Woman.
When He got time He made the Horse
which has the courage and spirit of Man
and the beauty and grace of Woman.
Brazilian saying
October 2012

Alan's cinnamon rolls ...
The arrow
that hits the bull’s eye
is the result of a hundred misses
September 2012

The eternal being, as it lives in us,
also lives in every animal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
August 2012

One should avoid resistances, instead of trying to
conquer them
Aubert
July 2012

A Lesson in Music
Play the tune again,
but this time with more regard for the movement at the source of it and less attention to time.
Time falls curiously in the course of it
Play the tune again,
not watching your fingering, but forgetting, letting flow the sound till it surrounds you.
Do not count or even think.
Let go.
Play the tune again,
but try to be nobody, nothing, as though the pace of the sound were your heart beating,
as though the music were your face.
Play the tune again.
It should be easier to think less every time of the notes, of the measure.
It is all an arrangement of silence.
Be silent and then play it for your pleasure.
Play the tune again
and this time, when it ends, do not ask me what I think.
Feel what is happening strangely in the room as the sound glooms over you, me, everything.
Now,
play the tune again
June 2012

The poets habit of living should be set on a key so
low and plain
that the common influences should delight him
His cheerfulness should be the gift of sunlight
The air should suffice for his inspiration
and
he should be tipsy with water
Emerson
May 2012

Lottie and Baby Roo
i beg you ........
to have patience with everything unresolved
in your heart and try to love the questions themselves
as if they were locked rooms or books written
in a very foreign language.
don’t search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
and the point is to live everything,
live the questions now.
perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.............
rainer maria rilke
to have patience with everything unresolved
in your heart and try to love the questions themselves
as if they were locked rooms or books written
in a very foreign language.
don’t search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
and the point is to live everything,
live the questions now.
perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.............
rainer maria rilke
April 2012

A rainy walk along Clear Lake, Oregon .......
beautiful ........
The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Chief Luther Standing Bear
Lakota Sioux
March 2012

My dear friend Jamie painting on the rocks in Sedona AZ
Discipline
is only
meaningful
when you find
final
abandonment
is only
meaningful
when you find
final
abandonment