Image by Nicholas Pastore

'I feel it now: there’s a power in me

to grasp and give shape to my world.

I know that nothing has ever been real

without my beholding it.

All becoming has needed me.

My looking ripens things

and they come toward me,

to meet and be met.'

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

Living Life

'In order to write about life,

 first you must live it.'

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

JOY

   

'Joy does not simply happen to us.

We have to choose joy 

and keep choosing it every day.' 

~ Henri Nouwen ~

Optimism

‘Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.

Because unless you believe that the future can be better,

you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.’

~ Noam Chomsky ~

The Remaking of Life

 Image created with Art displayed in Tracy Verdugo's studio unit

'Grief is in two parts. The first is loss.
The second is the remaking of life.'

~ Anne Roiphe ~

Glimpsing the Future

Image from The Hunter Valley Gardens

‘There is always one moment
in childhood when the door opens
and lets the future in.’

~ Graham Greene ~

Remembering together

Beth & Nicholas

'A year, ten years from now,

I'll remember this; not why,

only that we were here like this, together.'

~ Adrienne Rich ~

Love

 Image by Nicholas Pastore

'Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.'

~ Zora Neale Hurston ~

Music

'Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.'

~ Lao Tzu ~