Indecision
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Resntment is like taking poison and hoping the other person will die.
--Unknown

RIver's Turn
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Delusion
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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

José Ortega y Gasset

Loose Grip
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Song of Harmony
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Combat
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Intrusion
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Seismic Interruption
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Michelle
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Pink for Mary
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We must not believe the many who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus
55-135

Clinging to Illusions
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Agility Required
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

Setting the Tone
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Feeling Blue #1
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Feeling Blue #2
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Hydrangeas
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The Long Wait
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Future Considerations
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Rebirth Pains
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"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
Katharine Butler Hathaway

Anthesis
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy, June 6, 1966
Cape Town, South Africa

Prom Impending
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Awaiting the Moth
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"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience
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Original photo by Becky Mahon.

Thought for the Day:
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me."
George Bernard Shaw

Almost Soup
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Intensity
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Confusion
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The Kiss
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Points of View
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Mother's Day was in part inspired by a woman named Julia Ward Howe who nursed the wounded durintg the American Civil War. In 1870 she started a crusade to institute a Mother's Day as a Day for Peace.

"Arise all women who have hearts, say firmly: Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. In the name of womanhood and of humanity, take counsel with each other as the means whereby the great human family can live in peace..."
Julia Ward Howe

What a shame that we mothers have allowed PEACE to be removed from our symbolic day.

Basics
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Laughing Matter
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Inspiration
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Schism
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Camouflage
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Breaking Free
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Peacemobile
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Synergy
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Evidence?
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Back to the Beginning
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Forest Chapel
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Nature's Delight
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Thought for the Day:
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

(I really love that!)

Along the Path
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Crossing
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Calla Lily Series: #9
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Calla Lily Series: #8
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Calla Lily Series: #7
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Calla Lily Series: #6
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Calla Lily Series: #5
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Calla Lily Series: #4
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Calla Lily Series: #3
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Calla Lily Series: #2
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