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
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,
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
“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
as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.” — Wallace J. Nichols * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
would be if I lost my love for the ocean.” — Laird Hamilton * * * Kite surfing at Mayflower Beach, Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass. Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere…” — Anne Sexton Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
it will be foul weather today; for the sky is red and lowering.” — Matthew, XVI: 2-3 * * * Photo credit: Jan Logozzo © 2014
“It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” ― Vivian Greene * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
“You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” — Swami Sivananda
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 