watch with glittering eyes

the whole world around you

because the greatest secrets

are always hidden in

the most unlikely places.

(roald dahl)

sometimes the questions are complicated

and the answers are simple

(theodor seuss geisel)

[postscript]  yes, i know i’m dreadfully late in posting this (it’s almost august?) — somehow the month of july slipped right through my fingers.

we must be our own

before we can be another’s

(ralph waldo emerson)

it’s all there,

but hard to find the beginning

and impossible to fathom the end.

(jeanette winterson)

life, for eternal us, is now

and now is much too

busy being everything

to seem anything.

(e.e. cummings)

life is made up of moments,

small pieces of glittering mica

in a long stretch of gray cement.

(anna quindlen)

nobody has ever measured,

not even poets,

how much the heart can hold.

(zelda fitzgerald)

there are years that ask questions

and years that answer them.

(zora neale hurston)

observe the wonders

as they occur around you.

don’t claim them.

feel the artistry

moving through,

and be silent.

(rumi)

we must wait

until the evening

to see how splendid

the day has been

(sophocles)