Bonfire

“One shining, incalculable asset remained;;the tight, warm friendship of men together in misfortune.   While we remained together hope could not be quenched.  The whole, in terms of spirit and resolution, was greater than the sum of its parts.”  –Slavomir Rawicz

Motor Skills

“In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.”
― Emma Forrest

Found

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.”
― Yann Martel

Bingo and Jordan

Down By the River

 

“Take me down to the river, I pray.  All of this pain, wash my tears away.”  –Sarah Jean Simmons-Meyer

Roof Matters

 

“Yes, we are looking for someone to hear us, but we want a place to belong too…a place where we can shine inconspicuously with other lights on the tree while we trudge through what comes at us.”  –Elephant Journal

Mr. September

"The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters."
— Sue Monk Kidd

Cutting Steel

"I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in."
— Haruki Murakami

Chuck and Bingo

"She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."
— Haruki Murakami

Jen’s Annual Pig Roast

“The answer to any malaise consisted in going deeper into it and not trying to escape into some mythical land of make-believe. “ –David Brookes