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

rebel with cause

give me a sign, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

-- Henry Rollins

the lookout

carmel corn, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

-- Mae West

commitment

Grandpa's ring , originally uploaded by McBeth.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

-- Martin Luther

just sit down

ring of flowers, originally uploaded by McBeth.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

-- Ernest Hemingway

pigs, primarily

pigs, primarily, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

-- George Bush, Sr.

in dignity

memorial, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

-- Luigi Pierandello

eventually

'49 desoto, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.

-- Robert H. Stoddard

waiting for what's next

woman at bus stop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

-- Ovid

holiday onslaught

merry christmas, retail style, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

-- David Barry

uno dos tres

analogous, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

-- Alfred Adler

dig your well

badger liquor shop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst.

-- Chinese Proverb