“After dark, stars glisten like ice, and the distance they span hides something elemental. Not God, exactly. More like Some thin-hipped glittering Bowie-being—a Starman or cosmic ace hovering, swaying, aching to make us see. And what would we do, you and I, if we could know for sure” Tracy K. Smith, from Don’t You Wonder Sometimes

Young man—

Young man—

Your arm’s too short to box with God.

“In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.”

What happens to a dream deferred?

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. “ ― Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand…

Moments which require our attention and care—like making the bed and washing the dishes—are much more likely to take us to where we hope to go.

“When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light God Appears & God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day”

William Blake, the last lines of Auguries of Innocence

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”. – Paulo Coelho.

“Walker, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more.

Walker, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

Walking you make the road, and turning to look behind

you see the path you never again will step upon.

Walker, there is no road, only foam trails on the sea.”

Antonio Machado, Walker