firmament

“We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky”
~Emily Dickinson

inversion

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality”
~Henry David Thoreau

phantasm

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.”
~Buddha

lotsa madonnas

"..in my hour of darkness, she is standing right in front of me.."

reflections

“Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

a walk by the river reveals beautiful things

“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”
~Victor Hugo

wind power

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
~Albert Einstein

fireworks: iowa city 2009

"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
~Teilhard de Chardin

baby bird

"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting."

~Kahlil Gibran