December 21, 2012

Courage isn't the oak that sees storms come and go, but the fragile little blossom that opens in the snow. ~ Marie Frando

November 30, 2012

Maybe its bred in the bone, but the sound of pipes is a little bit of heaven to some of us. ~ Nancy O'Keefe

November 07, 2012

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso

October 01, 2012

Funeral Blues


Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.


Let aeroplanes circle, moaning over head
Scribbling on the sky the message "He is Dead."
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.


He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever.  I was wrong.


The stars are not wanted now: put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can come to any good.
~ W. H. Auden

August 27, 2012

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ~ E. M. Forster

August 26, 2012

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always  coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B. Anthony

July 09, 2012

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~ Jean Cocteau