withholding love

leave your dignity at the door, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

-- C.S. Lewis

humble beauty

two stacks, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

--Camille Pissarro

fashion choices

freshasa, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

-- Albert Einstein