"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours we must think them over again...

Middleton Place - Charleston, S.C. "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle shall not be...

"When love is at its best, one loves so much that (s)he cannot forget." ~ Helen Hunt Jackson The right words at the right time, said by...

"Be in nature, where everything is perfect..." ~ Ken Burns In the garden - a favourite place to be. Here, something reassuring about all...

click photos to expand - the interior of an antique cabinet papered with magazine clippings - one vase, one wildflower - an old wooden...

- click photos to expand - great grandfather's calling card, late 1800's London a run of magnificent sheep at Dover's Hill, above...

click each photo to expand When a woman asked the late Desmond Tutu how it's possible to feel joy in a world so troubled, he replied......

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see." ~ Henri Rousseau Walking through the curious twists of an old...

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer Let him step to the music he hears,...

The Lamp in the House "Happiness doesn't have just one address." ~ Anonymous I run my fingers slowly across a National Geographic map...

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given circumstances, to...

November 1, 2021 To you, my most beloved companion, I say goodbye for a while. You walked this earth the best you could - you saw, not...

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." ~ Albert Einstein ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don't ride the train...

Walking with no particular plan, I spotted this weathered little barn. How resilient it is, I thought, standing in silence, holding its...

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." ~ Michelangelo It's the first day of January, 2021. A day for...

"To love another person (creature), is to see the face of God." ~ Victor Hugo 4:30AM. The day begins with the familiar sounds of birds...

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." ~ Theodore Roosevelt Writing the word 'courageous' makes me feel less afraid. As I hear...

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more." ~ Virginia Woolf On a balmy, rainy day In early December I met...

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." ~ Aristotle In these irregular...

Pictures & Passages; Growth in Solitude, Reassurance in Nature