Wednesday Night

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

A Celebration

“All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that’s good enough.”
― Cassandra Clare

The Good Life

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood

Hiking Sharp Top

“Life was good, one had only to live it.”
― Jorge Amado

The Fire Pit

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth”
― Pema Chödrön

Gathering in the Woods

“They will teach us to quarrel about God, as Catholics and Protestants do on the Nez Perce Reservation and the other places.  We do not want that.  We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit.  We do not want to learn that.”  –Chief Joseph

Swimming Hole

“Because I am a red man.  If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.  He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires.  Each man is good in his sight.  It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.  Now we are poor but we are free.  No white man controls our footsteps.  If we must die we die defending our rights.”  –Sitting Bull (on why he did not surrender)

Montana’s Smile

“People in centuries past, he came to believe, devoted more energy to the sacred.  They spent more time building sacred spaces, and practicing sacred rituals.  They built gateways to a purer mode of existence.”  –David Brooks

Red Skirt

“Wisdom doesn’t consist of knowing specific facts or possessing knowledge in a field.  It consists of knowing how to treat knowledge:  being confident but not too confident; adventurous but grounded.  It is a willingness to confront counterevidence and to have a feel for the vast spaces beyond what’s known.” –David Brooks

Ladies Day Out

"For God’s sake, let’s take the word ‘possess’ and put a brick round its neck and drown it … We can’t possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have."
— Dorothy L. Sayers