"Some pursue happiness, others create it." ~Author Unknown

"I arise in the morning
torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day."

~Elwyn Brooks White

images taken at Rock Harbor, Orleans.
Day after Hurricane Earl
Sept. 2010

"A hunter of shadows, himself a shade." ~Homer

"I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma,
night and day,
and A and Z.
I have computed how far is Up,
how long it takes to get Away,
and what becomes of Gone.
I have discovered the length of the sea serpent,
the price of priceless,
and the square of the hippopotamus.
I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens,
how much Is you have to have to make an Are,
and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132,
if it would interest you."

~James Thurber

Images taken on Cape Cod Bay,
Brewster.
Summer 2010

"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better." ~Glenda Jackson

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
~William Shakespeare

"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

"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

"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.

"The sound of the water says what I think." ~Chuang Tzu

Journeys bring power and love
Back into you. If you can't go somewhere,
Move in the passageways of the self.
They are like shafts of light,
Always changing, and you change
When you explore them.

~Rumi

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." ~Andy Warhol

"It all depends
on how we look at things,
and not on how things are in themselves.
The least of things
with a meaning
is worth more in life
than the greatest of things
without it."

~Carl Jung

Taken at Claflin's Landing.
Chatham, Cape Cod.

"My soul is in the sky." ~William Shakespeare

a dialogue with clouds

free wanderers
take me with you
on your laughing flights of fancy
liberated
winged
set me on your shoulders to share your joy

fanciful daydreamer
we are water-bearers
driven by the whims of winds half mad
crossing borders clandestine in the night
"sans papiers"
burden bearers
unthanked

let me climb upon your cumulus mountains
and marshmallow castles
to dwell in your canyons of cotton and wool

climb you cannot
though our illusions reach to the limits of the heights
our castles are mists
our canyons but breezes
our mountains are what you breathe
wipe the sleep from your eyes dreamer

but let me lie in your muslin cirrus hammocks
as the world floats by below
let me see
as you do the dreaming sea sides from above
let me watch
as you do the yawning prairies roll

yes we would if we could lift you aloft
-to see the weeping of the unconsoled
and make you spill as we do tears of empathy upon mankind
-to see the earth ravaged and robbed bereaved of her children
then in a flash of light you would awaken and thunder as we do
we the ragged vagabonds of the sky
~dogfish

images taken in Chatham
Cape Cod.