HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Anybody have any good resolutions?

(beyond the whole lose weight, exercise more thing)

Originally uploaded by B!.

... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran

Originally uploaded by B!.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Originally uploaded by B!.

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Amy Tan

Originally uploaded by B!.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

Originally uploaded by B!.

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them."

Louisa May Alcott

Picabia

Originally uploaded by B!.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Lindbergh

Painting by Rivera

Originally uploaded by B!.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

Loved into sumbmission. I fell asleep about five minutes after this. Thomas is cozy.

pretty girl

MKR's first barbershop performance.

Originally uploaded by B!.

Like some twisted samurai wielding his blade,
You sliced through me.
Leaving no trace of your perfected craft,
Only the searing heat of being split in two.
I carry this division of myself around in secret, having left my other half
Somewhere along the way.

B.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine de St. Exupery

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

Originally uploaded by B!.

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Carl Jung

Originally uploaded by B!.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

HO!HO!HO!

Look who's happy to be here!

Originally uploaded by B!.

"This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape."

Roger Bannister

The painting is by Wyeth

zen
Originally uploaded by B!.

This Japenese Zen garden goes out to Bepee, who had a really bad day yesterday. Ohmmmm...

Who says I'm not a natural?

Originally uploaded by B!.

David-Castrated!

Originally uploaded by B!.

This has got to be my favorite found online yet! Guess David's manlihood was a little too much for some to take.

And don't forget, cute!

And hungry.

My new cousin is cool.

Another artist I like very much is John William Waterhouse, a British painter from the late 19th century/early 20th. His work is rather ethereal; often using women, myth and poetry as his subjects and inspiration. The first is a simple, but beautiful sketch. The second painting called "The Orange Gatherers" I liked because I thought it looked like something my mom would have in her house.

Originally uploaded by B!.

Originally uploaded by B!.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.

Thomas Aquinas

Originally uploaded by B!.

TheDream-Henri Rousseau
Originally uploaded by B!.

Return to the Norm

We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.

Alfred Adler

Everybody was Kung Fu fightin'