“A bird is three things: Feathers, flight and song, And feathers are the least of these.”
— Marjorie Allen Seiffert
“Masks. – There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man who associates with such almost spectral, necessarily unsatisfied beings is to be commiserated with, yet it is precisely they who are able to arouse the desire of the man most strongly: he seeks for her soul – and goes on seeking.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.” — Alexander Pope
A couple of collages that I did back in 2006.
The top being father’s day (bulls) and the bottom being mother’s day (cows).
“Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation” ― Robert Motherwell
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
— Thomas Merton
“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm,
even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Buddha
A cairn is a human-made pile of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn. *
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present.
The Lily
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat’ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
William Blake
“Turtles always strike me as devastatingly serious.
If turtles could talk, I’d believe everything they said.” — Erin O’Brien
“And the turtles, of course all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
— Dr. Seuss
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
“The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus,
the bass solo of the croaking Frog,
the steady woof-woof-woof a barking Dog –
a summer night’s serenade.”
– Michael P. Garofalo
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ― Jalal al-Din Rumi
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” ― Joseph Fort Newton
Maverick Mist 