"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed." ~Irene Peter

"Nothing that is
can pause or stay;
The moon will wax,
the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud
will turn to rain,
The rain to mist
and cloud again,
Tomorrow
be today."

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

images taken around Chatham on a
breezy, gray Cape Cod day.
March 2011

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." ~Madeleine L'Engle

"Learning sleeps
and snores
in libraries,
but wisdom is everywhere,
wide awake,
on tiptoe."

~Josh Billings

Images taken at Marconi Beach
Wellfleet, MA
Cape Cod, 2011

"I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it." ~J.D. Salinger

Why are you so
enchanted by this world,
when a mine of gold
lies within you?

~Rumi

a walk to the Bay on a chilly March afternoon.
Brewster, Cape Cod, 2011.

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"If you see a whole thing -
it seems
that it's always beautiful.
Planets,
lives...
But up close
a world's all dirt and rocks.
And day to day,
life's a hard job,
you get tired,
you lose the pattern."

~Ursula Le Guin

Images taken on a walk with David
through the Cedar Swamp,
Eastham, Cape Cod.
March 2011

"For some moments in life there are no words." ~David Seltzer

"Footfalls echo
in the memory
Down the passage
which we did not take
Towards the door
we never opened"

~T.S. Eliot

Rest in peace, old friend.
Rob Gray, 1969-2011.

"The years teach much which the days never knew." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Upturned toward the sun,
eyes closed.
That color
and warmth
I see
and feel
is the soul
on fire.
If only it remained
when again my eyes opened."

~Jeb Dickerson

Chasing the light.
Cape Cod 2011

"You will always be your child's favorite toy." ~Vicki Lansky

"Think
what a better world it would be
if we all -
the whole world -
had cookies and milk
about three o’clock every afternoon
and then lay down
with our blankies for a nap."

~Robert Fulghum

wasting time on another cold
and gray winter day.
2011