
“If the house of the world is dark, love will find a way to create windows.”
Rumi (wisesayings.com)
Nymphenburg, Munich, Germany
Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin. (Michael Dirda)
VANCOUVER, CANADA – SHOP WINDOW
SOMEWHERE ON THE PACIFIC WEST COAST
“Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one’s resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.” (Antoni Gaudi)
La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
“Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up of varieties of little things put together.” (Israelmore Ayivor)
Campanile, Venice
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” (George Bernhard Shaw)
Murano, Venice
… of travels past …
“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.” (Kurt Vonnegut)
Austria
“Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.” (Thich Nhat Hanh)
“If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Pacific Coastal Forest, Canada