snowman pancakes

going

"Some are born and some are dying."

endless Dracula

"The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me."  Bram Stoker, Dracula

tomorrow will be different than today

"Never can say goodbye."

take joy

"...take joy, take delight in the good that moves through us."  Sharon Salzberg

rivalry

"The art of rivalries, in this sense, the struggle of intimacy itself:  the restless, twitching battle to get closer to someone…". Sebastian Smee, The Art of Rivalry

90

horse

pine

more

newness and promise

"The first moment of entrance, like that of love's, is always one of newness and promise."
Robert Finch in The Outer Beach

in

life has not forgotten

"remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall."  Rainer Marie Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

June

the only misfortune

'The only truly great misfortune is to have never been born.'  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis in The Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas

from the mind's eye

Lilies

"Every bird in the forest has its own voice."  Mestre Joao Grande

Passion

like a morning rain

Wyoming moment

hovering

"There is no numbing pain, no reeling
vision, no taste of blood, no feeling
of loneliness hovering like death in humid air."
Walter Dean Myers
"Bill Cash, 30"
Here in Harlem

What yesterday brought.

a flower remains a flower

Living without your brother is like walking with cinder blocks on your feet.

God gave

"God gave me this energy to teach capoeira and I am going to until I die."  Mestre Joao Grande

I got more room than a chicken in a barn alone.