Circus Circus

"Damn everything but the circus?…
 The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright'
is a person who cannot leap through a hoop
from the back of a galloping horse,
make people laugh with a clown's mouth,
orchestrate twenty lions."
-E.E. Cummings

The Monster Mash

"Man as an individual is genius.
But men in the mass form the headless monster,
a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."

-Charlie Chaplin

Balloons

Who knows if the moon's
A balloon coming out of a keen city
In the sky - filled with pretty people?

-E.E. Cummings 

Bird Village

Keep a green tree in your heart,
and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Chinese proverb

Whorl

"The truth is you don't know
what's going to happen tomorrow.
Life is a crazy ride,
and nothing is guaranteed."

-Eminem 

Anatomical Heart

"Her heart was a secret garden
and the walls were very high."

-William Goldman, The Princess Bride 

Electrolytes

"I've miss more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games.
Twenty-six times,
I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.
I've failed over
and over
and over again in my life,
and that is why I succeed."

-Michael Jordan

Hello Mr. Owl

To live content with small means;
To seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion;
To be worthy, not respectable;
And wealthy, not rich;
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly...
To listen to stars and buds,
To babes and sages, with open heart;
Await occasions, hurry never...
This is my symphony.

William Henry Channing

Octopus

Sometimes I wish I were an octopus
so I could slap eight people at once. 

Growing Flowers

 "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,
share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,
smile at someone and receive a smile in return,
are to me continual spiritual exercises."

-Leo Buscaglia

Dreamers

"Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We are the music makers,

And we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

And sitting by desolate streams;—

World-losers and world-forsakers,

On whom the pale moon gleams:

Yet we are the movers and shakers

Of the world for ever, it seems.

Sail Away

"Twenty years from now you will be
more disappointed by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did do.
But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take,
when you reach a destination
that you thought you'd never make."

-Mark Twain 

Feet Off The Ground

"Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want.
Vision uses imagination to picture something you do want.
Either way, you tend to get what you focus on.
Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive,
and the light of hope shines brighter in the world.
If you can see it, you can be it."

-Ian Lawton 

Chicken

"The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it."

-Arnold H. Glaskow 

Vino ~ The Process

"The discovery of wine

is of greater moment than

the discovery of a constellation.

The universe is too full of stars."

-Benjamin Franklin, c. 1700

The Race

“Patience, grasshopper," said Maia.
"Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that was
'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon.
"No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”

-Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

Flux: n. continuous change

"I wanted a perfect ending.
Now I've learned, the hard way,
that some poems don't rhyme,
and some stories don't have a clear
beginning, middle, and end.

Life is about not knowing,
having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.

Delicious Ambiguity."

-Gilda Radner