Sunrise

“I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention.”
― Marilynne Robinson

Saint Mary’s Hike

 

“There are things that you can’t do – like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.”
― Arundhati Roy

Green

never mind

all the trying

just

winter on the first day of spring

just

chalk in rain

–Sarah Jean Simmons

Paw Paw Blooms

“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Stephanie Perkins

Pine Nuts

“Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon”
― Joseph Conrad

Sumac

"You know how I see it? There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing–light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light…I guess from my point of view, we can choose to be in the dark, or we can light a candle. And for me, Christ is that candle."
— Jodi Picoult

Apple Picking

"That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along."
— Madeleine L’Engle

Bronze Fennel

“There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did from my marriage, but in the end fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.”  –Paula McLain (The Paris Wife)

Paradise Beach: Part One

"Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention."
— Paulo Coelho

Ocean Pines

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity."
— Paulo Coelho