“But like sunflowers we turn toward light. Light warms, and in most cases it draws us to itself. And in this light, we can see beyond shadow and illusion to something beyond our modest receptors, to what is way beyond us, and deep inside.”

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

sometimes you need to play hookie on Wednesdays.

these people make me so happy.

it's the thread of summer that lives in all of us.

"I've discovered that the most amazing things happen to you when you are standing around sharpening a pencil or doing something equally mundane, thinking absolutely nothing exciting is ever going to happen."

 -Jean Van Leeuwen

"When I was young, I used to have this 

thing where I wanted to see everything.

I used to think 'How can I die without 

seeing every inch of this world?'"

-Leonardo DiCaprio

set the sails.

"you cannot hold onto anything that wants to go.

 Do you understand what I'm sayin'? 

You just got to love it while you got it, and that's that." 

- Because of Winn Dixie

Just before Thoreau died, 

he was asked if he had made peace with God.

 He replied, “I was not aware we had ever quarreled”

timeless tides

Every 

night

 I 

look

 up 

at 

the 

freckled 

sky

and 

fall 

in

love 

with 

the 

universe

all 

over 

again

I 

will 

be 

counting 

the

stars

for 

the 

rest 

of 

my 

life. 

the guava lie.

You should about all things be glad and young

For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad

whatever's living will yourself become.

-e.e cummings