On One Leg

"A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree,
one is not part of a plot of land.
Mankind has legs so it can wander."

-Roman Payne, The Wanderess 

Skull

"Holding onto anger

is like drinking poison

and expecting the other person

to die."

-Buddha

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 

Turning Point

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year.
The morning of the first September was
crisp and golden as an apple.” 

-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Simplified Complexity

“We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity
of an organic being;
but on the hypothesis here advanced
this complexity is much increased.
Each living creature must be looked at
as a microcosm--a little universe,
formed of a host of self-propagating organisms,
inconceivably minute and as numerous
as the stars in heaven.”

-Charles Darwin

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 

Protozoans

"Somewhere,
something incredible
is waiting to be
known."

-Carl Sagan 

Peer Through

trust,
is a luxury.

r.m. drake

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 

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 

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