" and the evening lives o'er all serene and still... wrapt, let me view the magical world below." ​ {unknown} ​ with my head bowed to the...

She was blind and insensible to many things, and dimly she knew it; but to all that was light and air, perfume and color, every drop of...

" Look & think before opening the shutter. The heart & mind are the true lens of the camera." ​ {Yousuf Karsh} ​ ​ in the midst of...

" Moments when her thoughts, her simple existence, the fact of the world being around - and heaven above her, seemed to yield her such...

" When we reread a novel, we encounter it as all the ages we have been as well as the age we are now. Our souls are steeped in the story....

" Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked...

" To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." ​ {Kurt Vonnegut} ​ ​ perusing...

" And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts: A sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused,...

" To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not...

...but here was the wide world awake and yet only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by me, not a living soul hearing the...

" Like a gentle whispering Of all the secrets of some wond'rous thing That breathes about us in the vacant air... ​ Perhaps to see shapes...

" God, rest in my heart and fortify me, take away my hunger for answers, let hopes play upon my body." ​ {Mary Oliver} ​ ​ how fine it is...

" Her home was always witch-tales and words, stories into which she could escape... ​ it was the soft quiet of the stacks and the scratch...

" You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state." ​ {E. Tolle} ​ ​ in my daily photography walks I am... seeking...

" O, the solemn woods over which the light and shadow traveled swiftly, as if Heavenly wings were sweeping on benignant errands, through...

" Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity, the more original & creative our time will become." ​ {John O'Donahue}...

" She has this way of always finding the good and believing in everything despite all she had seen. And that is what I loved the most -...

" She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light. Lovely scents...

" This day is forever a day to be held and cherished, because in it we shall have lived, and loved, and nothing else in the world matters...

" Begin the song exactly where you are, Remain within the world of which you're made. Call nothing common in earth or air, Accept it and...