“During a morning stroll I was explaining to a good friend not too long ago why I decided to quit my job. The truth is that I had no choice in the matter. It was my job or my soul.”

Here is a list of my top ten favorite quotes of all time. Quotes from Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare, Mary Oliver, Marianne Williamson, and more…

The following list was found among the papers of the painter Richard Diebenkorn after his death in 1993. Spelling and capitalization are as in the original.

I was listening to music while I was painting and this song came on. I thought it was so filled with hope and wisdom that I wanted to share it with you

This poem speaks so beautifully of desire. Most of us in this blog community are living outside of bars, but not all of us are free. I hope we each find the courage within to open our hearts and our minds to the freedom that is ours, if only we will take it.

I came upon this poem by Mary Oliver this morning after a glorious sunrise and had to share it.

Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the branches of the young locust trees, in early morning, feel like?