“Strange to see how a good dinner…
February 2, 2015
and feasting reconciles everybody.” — Samuel Pepys * * * Egret photo by Jan Logozzo © 2015
Category: Musings
“Real freedom
January 29, 2015
lies in wildness, not in civilization.” — Charles Lindbergh * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
“Success is not a harbor
January 26, 2015
but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.” — Richard Nixon * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2007
“We need the tonic of wildness,
January 22, 2015
to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” — Henry David Thoreau * * * Gray’s … More “We need the tonic of wildness,
“For a selfie, it’s not about the pose,
January 19, 2015
it’s about you. There’s a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.” — Nigel Barker * * * Muscovy duck photo credit: Jan Logozzo © 2015
“If all you do is look out for yourself, then…
January 15, 2015
you’re not really looking out for yourself. Taking care of those that love and care about you is critical. Living just for yourself is not really living.” — Jose N. Harris * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
Wall of Sky
January 12, 2015
Sometimes I sit with my back pressed against a wall of sky, until the winds shift and the clouds pass by. * * * Poem, Wall of Sky by Mary O’Connor, originally published in Dreams of a Wingless Child © 2007 Wheatmark, Tuscon, Ariz. © 2007. Photo, Charles W. Morgan whaling ship docked in New London, CT, by Jan … More Wall of Sky
“That pleasure which is at once the most pure,
January 8, 2015
the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.” – Edgar Allan Poe * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
“Stand still…
January 5, 2015
“and silently watch the world go by – and it will.” — Unknown Finding joy is an ongoing journey. Discover more about the steps along the way in my book, Life Is Full of Sweet Spots. * * * Photo credit: Jan Logozzo
“When scattered clouds are resting
January 1, 2015
on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that … More “When scattered clouds are resting
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