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I have arrived. I am home.
In the here. In the now.
I am solid. I am free.
In the ultimate I dwell.

The newest member of the church.

Just one more bottle and TIM might have enough chins to satisfy Corvella.

CMR can't contain his excitement!

I'm with you.

Paying special attention while being told what it is to be a member of the catholic church...

MKR enjoying one of those delicious school lunches with her buddies.

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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

~George Eliot~

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If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

And hangs out too.

You Call It Sap...

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

w.b.yeats

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." -- T. S. Eliot

Anybody recognize this? I hated this painting.
Who has this now anyway, J.?

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Things do not change, we change.
Henry David Thoreau:

The sentimental, Pablo Neruda lover that I am

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I do not love you as if you were brine-rose, topaz,
or barbed carnations thrown off by the fire.
I love you as certain hidden things are loved,
secretly, between night and soul.

I love you like the flower-less plant
carrying inside itself the light of those flowers,
and, graced by your love, a fierce perfume
risen from earth, is alive, concealed in my flesh.

I love you without knowing how, whence, when.
I love you truly, without doubts, without pride,

I love you so, and know, no other way to love,
none but this mode of neither You nor I,
so close that your hand over my chest is my hand,
so close they are your eyes I shut when I sleep


p.neruda

GUESS WHO HIT DOUBLE DIGITS?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEST BOY!

Derain
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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I don't necessarily feel this today, but it's so beautifully written that I wanted to share it.


The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Rabindranath Tagore:
from Gitanjali

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

Humor Me.

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While I play with my webpage. Hey! It's all about entertaining you-remember that! You can always turn off the music if you don't like it. Right under the video are the controls.

painting by M. Prendergast

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The second-cutest kitty.(Gotta give Rosie his props) Beth's sweet kitty "Boozie".

The new conehead family?

Happy New Year!

You try to take one nice picture! Check out Maddie's eye's. The perennial goofball.

The life of the party!