Tag Archives: Nature

Everything in life is a risk of some sort. Many climbers have been seriously hurt or killed driving home from the hills. Climbing holds can break unexpectedly, but lightning also strikes. Most people exist so swaddled against danger, measuring out … Continue reading →

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll

No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories. ~Chris Sorensen

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. –Denis Waitley

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ― Plato

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that … Continue reading →

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated not by a single burst of energy or effort, but by consistent application of the best you have within you. –Og Mandino Congratulations to the WOKies on our fourth anniversary of our … Continue reading →

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be – like the reality of yesterday – an illusion tomorrow. –Luigi Pirandello

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. –W.B. Yeats In Memory of Shriya Shah-Klorfine

I’m humbled to have reached the milestone of 500 Visual Soliloquies…it’s been a good contemplative practice to try to match words that inspire me with images that do the same.  Thanks for all of your support and comments on the … Continue reading →

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care. ~William Alexander

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. – Alan Keightley

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

It is solved by walking. – Algerian proverb

It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville

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

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. – Sam Keen

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.- Buddha

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt