draggin' wagon

Davina DeVille, originally uploaded by McBeth.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.

-- Pablo Picasso

opened up

washington state, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

-- Viggo Mortensen

inflate your life raft

persimmon's art, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

-- Ava Gardner

Mister Owl, how many licks does it take?

three tomatoes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

-- Buddha

wide open

blue sky barney, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

-- Ursula K Leguin

dispersion

dolly, originally uploaded by McBeth.

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

-- Jack Kerouac

risk assessment

recycle h2o, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

-- Henry Ford

sunday dinner

sunday dinner, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

-- Hunter S. Thompson

faraway

hornby island twilight, originally uploaded by McBeth.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

-- Albert Einstein

this is how it is done

fly away, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

-- Douglas Adams

consolation

watch over, originally uploaded by McBeth.

In our sad condition, our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

-- Martin Luther

depths

ice water, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

-- Sigmund Freud

locker up

pink padlock, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

-- Elayne Boosler

domesticum

domesticum, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

reflection

reflection, originally uploaded by McBeth.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

-- Peace Pilgrim

Age does not protect you from love.  But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

-- Jeanne Moreau

friendly fields

jo , originally uploaded by McBeth.

As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.


-- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

go knit

knit, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If some sissy chick tried to kick my ass I would say hey, missy, go knit me a sweater before I slap you in the face!

-- Eric Cartman

rest your head for just five minutes

weep, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

-- Ernest Hemingway

cinnamon toast

holiday, originally uploaded by McBeth.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

-- Dorothy Parker