Howl

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

~ Carlos Castaneda

A new year

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone,
the future is not come,
and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it,
and,
like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Humor?
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
~Carl Reiner

Here

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. ~Voltaire

Swans a swimmingThe water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. ~Aleksandr Popov

The Zen of walking

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~J.K. Rowling

Holiday in motion

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
no fat handshaking stranger
in a red flannel suit
and a fake white beard
went around passing himself off
as some sort of North Pole saint
crossing the desert to Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
in a Volkswagen sled
drawn by rollicking Adirondack reindeer
and German names
and bearing sacks of Humble Gifts
from Saks Fifth Avenue
for everybody's imagined Christ child
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti