"I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?" ~Henry Moore

"Blessed 
is he 
who expects 
nothing, 
for he shall 
never 
be 
disappointed."
 
~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin

images taken on Cape Cod Bay.
Brewster, 2010

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." ~Leo Buscaglia

"Wrinkles
should merely indicate 
where smiles 
have been."
~Mark Twain

"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering." ~Steven Wright

"They seemed to come suddenly 
upon happiness
as if they had surprised 
a butterfly 
in the 
winter woods."
 
~Edith Wharton

images taken in Provincetown, MA
Cape Cod, 2010

"Seeking is not always the way to find." ~Augustus William Hare

"People often say
that this or that person
has not yet found himself.
But the self is not something one finds,
it is something one creates."

~Thomas Szasz

images taken on a road trip to the mountains.
Stowe, VT.

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." ~Bill Cosby

Cradle Song

From groves of spice,
O'er fields of rice,
Athwart the lotus-stream,
I bring for you,
Aglint with dew,
A little lovely dream.

Sweet, shut your eyes,
The wild fire-flies
Dance through the fairy neem;
From the poppy-bole
For you I stole
A little lovely dream.

Dear eyes, good night,
In golden light
The stars around you gleam;
On you I Press
With soft caress
A little lovely dream.

- Sarojini Naidu

images of my brother and his son.
summer 2010

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow." ~Dan Rather

for you

If your wandering ever leads you
to a place where you don't know which road to choose
leave your worries behind
take the road that leads to mine
and I'll be waiting there for you

If your dreaming ever wakes you
and you find your dreaming wasn't true
wipe the sleep from your eyes
leave the nightmares behind
and I'll dream a better dream for you

If your fortune ever fails you
and you're down without a dime to see you through
there's still luck that you can find
you have a piece of mine
I'll make a wish for you

If your lover ever leaves you
and you find yourself with no one left to lose
you don't have to be alone
take the road that leads you home
and I'll be waiting there for you...

...I'll be waiting there for you

peter bradley adams

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." ~ Alan Watts

Elsewhere

I love the time
and in between
the calm inside me
in the space where I can breathe
I believe there is a distance I have wandered
to touch upon the years
of reaching out and reaching in
holding out, holding in
I believe this is heaven to no one else but me
and I'll defend it
as long as I can be
left here to linger in silence

if I choose to

~Sarah Mclachlan

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it." ~Russel Baker

"That's the thing with magic.
You've got to know it's still here,
all around us,
or it just stays 
invisible for you."

~Charles de Lint

images taken at Cape Cod Bay.
Brewster, Cape Cod.

"Presence is more than just being there." ~Malcolm S. Forbes

If trees could scream,
would we be so cavalier
about cutting them down?
We might,
if they screamed all the time,
for no good reason.
~Jack Handey

Sea View Park,

Dennisport, Cape Cod

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." ~Ludwig Börne

“What is the feeling 
when you're
driving away from people,
and they recede on the plain 
till you see their specks 
dispersing?
-it's the too huge world vaulting us,
and it's 
good-bye.
But we lean forward 
to the next crazy venture 
 beneath the 
skies.”
 
~Jack Kerouac

images taken at Boat Meadow Beach, Eastham.
Cape Cod 2010

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." ~Moshe Dayan

"Then followed that beautiful season... 
Summer....
Filled was the air 
with a dreamy and magical light; 
and the landscape
Lay as if new 
created in all the freshness
of childhood."
 
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

images taken on 4th of July.
Provincetown, Cape Cod.