purple

fresh breath, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

-- Alice Walker

stand up

protest in madison: 02/26/11, originally uploaded by McBeth.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

to be fair

Above all., originally uploaded by McBeth.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

once upon a time

swerve, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
Sand and water, and a million years gone by.

-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

high height

Mad Rollin' Dolls 2011: Bout 3, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

if you look closely

over there, originally uploaded by McBeth.

When you are describing
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things
With a sort of mental squint.

-- Lewis Carroll

interrelated

chair boss, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

darned if you don't

this that, originally uploaded by McBeth.

What then after the medications, psychiatrist, despair, depression, and overdose? All those incredible feelings to sort through. Who is being too polite to say what? Who knows what? What did I do? Why? And most hauntingly, when will it happen again? Then, too, are the bitter reminders..... medicine to take, resent, forget, take, resent, and forget, but always to take.

-- Kay Jamison

take a seat and wait

swimming is not advised., originally uploaded by McBeth.

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

-- Mitch Hedberg

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