A Portrait of My Grandmother & 4 Paper Collages

Know the true value of time; 

snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. 

No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: 

never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

-Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Elephant Pattern

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he's trying to run away,
it's best to let him run."

-Abraham Lincoln 

Feather

"All those who see me
and all who believe in me,
share in the freedom
I feel when I fly."

-John Denver 

Surf

Salt air
Cool breeze
Adventure in my soul

-Anonymous 

Eclipse

Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha 

On A Perch

"I'd rather be the weird kid that everybody
remembers ten years from now than
that popular chick that nobody
remembers ten years from now."

-Avalon Kirkland Jones 

Marbles

"My greatest achievement?
I was the neighborhood marbles
champion in the third grade."

-Frank X. Sutton 

Tree Frog

 "It it's your job to eat a frog,
it's best to do it first thing in the morning.
And if it's your job to eat two frogs,
it's best to eat the biggest one first."

-Mark Twain

Toucan

The Toucan by Shel Silverstein

Tell me who can
Catch a toucan?
Lou can.

Just how few
Can ride the toucan?
Two can.

What kind of goo can
Stick you to the toucan?
Glue can.

Who can write some
More about the toucan?
You can!

Bubble Fish

"If you judge a fish on its ability to climb,
that fish is going to live its whole life
thinking it is stupid."

-Albert Einstein 

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

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 

Octopus

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

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

Splatter

"If you hear a voice within you
that says you cannot paint,
then by all means paint,
and that voice will be silenced."

-Vincent Van Gogh 

5 O'clock Band CD Cover

"Faith is the bird that feels the light
when the dawn is still dark."

-Rabindranath Tagore 

Hot Air

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

(and if you and I should get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:

go sailing away and away sailing into a keen 
city which nobody's ever visited,where
always it's spring) and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves” 
― E.E. Cummings, Collected Poems