3rin's View…

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

~ Hafiz

Heceta Head Lighthouse, Florence, Oregon 2018

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Red Alder Canopy, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

~ Allard Lowenstein

Sunset, Central Oregon Coast 2018

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges.

Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Dusting of Snow on the Tucson Mountains, Tucson, Arizona 2011

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.

~ Rumi

Anna’s Hummingbird Feeding Chicks, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2014

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bison Rut, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010

The meaning is not derived from the answers to these questions. The meaning is derived from asking them.

~ Chris Larson

Brooklyn Bridge, New York, New York 2012

Gather out of Star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

~ Langston Hughes

Duckweed, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Revolutionary War Re-enactor, Breed’s Hill, Bunker Hill Monument, Boston National Historical Park, Boston, Massachusetts 2007