"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." ~John Muir

"There is nothing 
like returning to a place 
that remains 
unchanged
to find the ways 
in which you 
yourself 
 have altered."

~Nelson Mandela

Boston, MA
December 2010

"In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude." ~Robert Brault

"I realized these were all the snapshots
which our children would look at someday
with wonder,
thinking their parents had lived smooth,
well-ordered lives
and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life,
never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives,
our actual night,
the hell of it,
the senseless emptiness."

~Jack Kerouac