Janahlee’s Baby Shower

“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― Pablo Neruda

Black Walnut

“There is nothing more pathetic than caution

when headlong might save a life,

even, possibly, your own.”  –Mary Oliver

Impossibly Pink

“Our touching, our stories.

Earthy

and holy both.

How can this be,

but it is.”  –Mary Oliver

Build

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”
― Thomas Merton

Dormer Window

“Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated”
― Alan W. Watts

Brilliant

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”
― Alan W. Watts

Progress

“We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”
― Alan W. Watts

Addition

“We will all wake up semi-angels,
If we wake at all.”
— Rod McKuen

Roof Rafters

“No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.”
— Rod McKuen

Best Spot in Virginia

“I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don’t even know when they occur……It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most…timeless.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons