Take five

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Harvest 2010

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

Chicago Air & Water Show 2010

Impressions from the North Side

Shhhhh
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Qi

When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anaïs Nin

Comfort

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. ~William Shakespeare

Bee busy

Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ~Charles Kingsley