Walking Shoes

"Thirty was so strange for me.
I've really had to come to terms
with the fact that I am now
a walking and talking adult."

-C.S. Lewis 

Proboscidea

"Never do anything by halves

if you want to get away with it.

Be outrageous.

Go the whole hog.

Make sure everything you do is

so completely crazy it's unbelievable..."

-Matilda, Roald Dahl

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 

Custom Vans

"I named my dog 'Five Miles'

so I can tell everyone I walk Five Miles

every day."

-Anonymous

Imperfection

“We look for medicine to be an orderly field
of knowledge and procedure. But it is not.
It is an imperfect science,
an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge,
uncertain information, fallible individuals,
and at the same time lives on the line.
There is science in what we do,
yes, but also habit, intuition,
and sometimes plain old guessing.
The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists.
And this gap complicates everything we do.” 
― Atul Gawande,
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on An Imperfect Science

Eclipse

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

Buddha 

Whorl

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

-Eminem 

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

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 

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 

Floating Blimp

"Gloating is a superficial glowing,
floating is an idle flowing,
bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up;
because silent movement
results in loud victories."

-Criss Jami