I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating.
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you got and fix it along the way.
Paul Arden
… and we’re not done yet!
I was listening to Terry Gross’ interview with RuPaul on NPR’s Fresh Air the other day when I was brought to a standstill by RuPaul’s insight into the human condition.
“Being youthful is about being flexible both literally and figuratively. In this life, if you can stay flexible, you have a really good chance of navigating a really rich experience for yourself on this planet.”
Wise words we all would do well to remember during these tumultuous times.
(Portrait of a Sktchy muse in a Hahnemühle Nostalgie A5 Sketch Book)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes. But in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.
Gary Zukav
These ten commandments on seeing/drawing were revealed to me on a mountain, but also in a meadow, on a beach and even in the subway. For their revelation did not come all at once, but in this installments, as it were, over the years, and always while I was busy drawing, and invariably on holy ground. But that may be because, while drawing, all ground is holy: unseparated from the whole.
Frederick Franck
The Awakened Eye
Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again.
KT Wittin
Hard to believe it’s been five years already.
“I have been and always will be – your friend.” – Spock
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP.
Leonard Nimoy
27 March 1931 – 26 February 2015
The full quote:
Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.
Where coffee is served, there is grace and splendor and friendship and happiness.
All cares vanish as the coffee cup is raised to the lips.
Sheikh Abd-al-Kadir
In Praise of Coffee
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
John Quincy Adams
The great lessons from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, is that the Sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family. in one’s backyard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the Sacred. To be looking everywhere for miracles is a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.
Abraham Maslow
Dana Burrell... Art 