Dairy

“My room reflected the bright mess of my interior world, part boxcar and part fairyland.”  –Patti Smith

The Park Farm Shoot

“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”
― Truman Capote

Ducks in a Row

“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”
― Anne Brontë

Kite and Sally

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
― Anne Rice

Stuck

“And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said “All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them”
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.”

Suzanne.  Leonard Cohen

Thinking of Trees

“If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me.  It works every time, and not just in yoga.”  –Terri Guillemets

Wilfred

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― J.K. Rowling

Beatrice

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

Bath

“However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

Stone Streets

“I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I’d rather not recall just now.”
― Anna Akhmatova