tithe

velvia palpatine, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Moreover, we will bring to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the priests, the first of our ground meal, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees and of our new wine and oil. And we will bring a tithe of our crops to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.

-- Nehemiah 10:37 Bible, NIV

coming back down

snowy isthmus, originally uploaded by McBeth.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

-- Winston Churchill

sustenance

ginger ale, originally uploaded by McBeth.

“The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

-- Patricia Meyer Spacks

travel

wait 20 minutes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

thirst

blue swoon, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

-- Anais Nin