The End is the Beginning

 

“To our best friends, who know the worst about us and refuse to believe it."
— traditional English toast

At Seabury

"And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home."
— Wendell Berry

Mr. and Mrs.

"Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery. "
— Wendell Berry

For Sarah

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
–Charles Dickens

Lomo Love

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
–Pearl S. Buck

The Black Oak

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
–Amelia Barr

Washboard

“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”

–Bonnie Raitt

Fade to White

"Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him–he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory."
— Victor Hugo

SJ and Emmah

"You cannot control what you love–you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead."
—Graham Greene

Happy Birthday, Emmah