And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Terri Guillemets

"The family.  

We were a strange little band of characters 

trudging through life 

sharing diseases 

and toothpaste, 

coveting one another's desserts, 

hiding shampoo, 

borrowing money, 

locking each other out of our rooms, 

inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, 

loving, 

laughing, 

defending, 

and trying to figure out 

the common thread 

that bound us all 

 together." 

~Erma Bombeck

A Christmas visit from my family

December 2011

“Home is where one starts from.” ~T.S. Eliot

“That pleasure 

which is at once 

the most pure, 

the most elevating 

and the most intense, 

is derived, 

I maintain, 

from the contemplation 

of the 

beautiful.”
 

~Edgar Allan Poe

images taken on a chilly December afternoon.

Chatham, Cape Cod

by: Joanna Vaughan Photography

"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth." ~Rumi

A wee child 

toddling in a wonder world.... 

I prefer to their dogma 

my excursions into the natural gardens 

where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard 

in the twittering of birds, 

the rippling of mighty waters, 

and the sweet breathing of flowers.  

If this is Paganism, 

then 

at present, 

at least, 

I am a Pagan.  

~Zitkala-Sa

An amazing bike ride and picnic at Marconi Beach, Wellfleet with my boys.

Cape Cod Rail Trail.

November 2011.

"I imagine that yes is the only living thing." ~e.e. cummings

"You can owe 

nothing, 

if you give back 

its light

to the 

sun." 

~Antonio Porchia

An early November sunset walk with David.

Museum of Natural History, Brewster.

2011

"No road is long with good company." ~Turkish Proverb

"Basically, 

the only thing we need 

is a hand 

that rests on our own, 

that wishes it well, 

that sometimes 

guides us." 

~Hector Bianciotti

Fun in the park with my boys.

Brewster, Cape Cod.

Autumn 2011