quotes

welcome to the world

In family, life, love, photography, quotes on 19 October 2011 tagged baby, be still my heart, cole william simpson, george macdonald, nephew, welcome with 1 comment

where did you come from, baby dear? out of the everywhere and into here. (george macdonald)

everything else is secondary

In life, quotes on 8 October 2011 tagged 1955-2011, apple, rip, steve jobs with no comments

no one wants to die. even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. and yet death is the destination we all share. no one has ever escaped it. and that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. it is [...]

happy thirty-six

In life, poem of the day, quotes on 26 June 2011 tagged 36, birthday, derek walcott, i give this poem to myself every year with 2 comments

love after love the time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. eat. you will love again the stranger who was your self. give wine. give bread. give back your heart to [...]

what i needed to hear today

In life, quotes on 3 June 2011 tagged one true thing, what i needed to hear with no comments

it’s so much easier to be happy. it’s so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you’re missing, or what it is that you’re imagining you’re missing. (meryl streep, one true thing)

happy earth day

In images, life, photography, quotes, stardust on 22 April 2011 tagged carl sagan, earth day, pale blue dot with no comments

by request of carl sagan, NASA commanded the voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the solar system, to turn its camera around and take this photograph of earth — the pale blue dot, against the vastness of space. From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular [...]