Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find within yourself all of the barriers that you have built against love.
~ Rumi

Western Tiger Swallowtail, Santa Maria, California 2008

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the

risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin

California Flannelbush, Point Reyes National Seashore, California 2008

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

~ Japanese Proverb

Dancing Deer, Olympic National Park, Washington 2008

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except

those who sang the best.

~ Henry van Dyke

 Western Meadowlark, Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, California 2008

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~ J.B. Priestley

Magnolia blossom, Charleston, South Carolina 2007

Celebrating my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.

~ Horace (Roman poet, Ode I-6)

Weathervane, Chattanooga, Tennessee 2007

Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

~ Shel Silverstein

Glacier National Park, Montana 1998

The difficult is what takes a little time, the impossible is what takes a little longer. 

~ Fridtjof Nansen

Grand Canyon, Arizona 2006

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. 

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Abert’s Squirrel, Lakeside, Arizona 2016

Rule # 11 – Be someone’s eccentric aunt. 

~ Tina Roth Eisenberg

Lincoln City, Oregon 2018