look at me…

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired:  even I who write this, and you who read this.  ~Blaise Pascal

oh Dandelion where art thou….

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don’t get around
Like the dandelions do.
~Slim Acres

could it be…

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.  ~Proverb

We are Family…

You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.

~Franklin P. Jones

 

small pleasures…

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

sacred places…

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

~Elbert Hubbard

home on the range…

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
~Robert Montgomery

hanging in there…

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

rebirth into beauty…

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature.  A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.  ~Harry Crews

 

photographs and memories…

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.  ~From the television show The Wonder Years