The Morning’s Milk

“The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the measure of our bodies are the same.”
― Chief Joseph

The Cow Spa

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner

Gryphon Visits the Cows

“…for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha”
― Hermann Hesse

Guineas

"Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That."
— Hafez

Bottle Feeding

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
― C.S. Lewis

Standoff

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”
― Mark Helprin

Milk

"I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible."
— Alice Hoffman

Ali and Tobe

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you’ve been.”
― Margaret Atwood

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

Shannon

Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It’s deliberately limited. It won’t function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can’t do it absolutely. That’s because you can’t do anything absolutely by reason. That’s because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don’t think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that.”
― Mark Helprin