“There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation’s own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments”
Joseph Anderson
Weekly Photo Challenge
The Foresters
Friends,
I am only merry for an hour or two
Upon a birthday: if this life of ours
Be a good glad thing, why should we make us merry
Because a year of it is gone? but Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come
Whispering ‘It will be happier;’ and old faces
Press round us, and warm hands close with warm hands,
And thro’ the blood the wine leaps to the brain
Like April sap to the topmost tree, that shoots
New buds to heaven, whereon the throstle rock’d
Sings a new song to the new year — and you,
Strike up a song, my friends, and then to bed.
Alfred Tennyson
Each time I see the Upside-Down Man
Standing in the water,
I look at him and start to laugh,
Although I shouldn’t oughtter.
For maybe in another world
Another time
Another town,
Maybe HE is right side up
And I am upside down.
Shel Silverstein
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marcus Aurelius
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Paul Valéry
“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire?
The one nearest the door of course.” George Bernard Shaw
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
Wind kisses water
the sea lifts to sky
energy transfers
moving toward the shore
only one, never again.
Asian Art Museum
Maverick Mist 