making music

saw her there, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

-- Oscar Wilde

on task

truth in advertising, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

-- Ansel Adams

as the crow flies

as the crow flies, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

lent embraces

holding steady, originally uploaded by McBeth.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

-- August Rodin

eventide

helliwell sunset, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

-- Mahalia Jackson

out there

madison shoreline, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

-- Fran Lebowitz

keep going

homeward bound, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

-- Thomas Henry Huxley

organizational attentiveness

bearded dragon(boat), originally uploaded by McBeth.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

advocacy

taking care of each other, originally uploaded by McBeth.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office.

-- Gloria Steinem

well, maybe just this once

funnel cake, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

-- Carrie Bradshaw/Sara Jessica Parker

clematis

garden ladder, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

-- Ronald Harwood

liquidity

smooth ride, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.

-- Fred Rogers

structural integrity

checks and balances, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

once again, and this time with feeling

midday, somewhere in France, originally uploaded by McBeth.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.

-- Chuck Palahniuk

egged on

happy eggs come from smiling chickens, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

-- Mark Twain

womb

womb, originally uploaded by McBeth.

STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.

REG: What?!

LORETTA: It's my right as a man.

JUDITH: Well why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?

LORETTA: I want to have babies.

REG: You want to have babies?

LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.

REG: But- you can't have babies.

LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.

REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?”

cut off

rising tide, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

-- Henry Miller

qu'attendez-vous

necking, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

-- Marcus Aurelius

springtime pulses

veined, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

-- George Eliot

treasure

pot of gold, originally uploaded by McBeth.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.

-- Henry Ward Beecher