Cosmos

There are times in one's life - when one simply has to stop, step out of one's routine and take the trouble to think. It's not a luxury but an obligation: how else to even try to make measured, considered decisions based on deliberation and self-awareness rather than on impulse or fear?

from Running to the Mountain by Jon Katz

Beauty streams through us

This world is all ours, belonging to each of us: swan, crane, walrus, wren, dog, muskrat, saxifrage, pine, polar bear, you, me. But too many of us have relinquished our hold on the natural world and turned toward power and the ownership of things. The circuit that binds air to ocean, river to mountain, snowdrift to glacier, ice to water, flows through each of us. … Beauty streams through us, inside and out, the way waves and skeins of radiant energy from the sun give us life.

- Gretel Ehrlich

Ivy flower

To change one's life: Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
- William James

Alberta Street Fair

True or false

We are at liberty to be real or unreal. We may be true or false. The choice is ours. We may wear now one mask and now another, and never if we so desire, appear with our own true face. But we cannot make these choices with impunity. Causes have effects. And if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them.

- Thomas Merton

Hooks on you

Near the river

Understanding the needs of the world

Motherhood is not simply the organic process of giving birth ...
it is an understanding of the needs of the world.
- Alexis DeVeaux

Something good for a child

If you want to do something good for a child...
give him an environment where he can
touch things as much as he wants.
- Buckminster Fuller

Turkey sandwiches

Recipe for Great Turkey Sandwiches
Fresh challah rolls
Top quality sliced turkey
Best Foods mayonnaise (Hellman's on the east coast)
Dijon mustard
Black pepper
Alfalfa sprouts

Built to move

Man sometimes thinks like a tree - but he was built to move.
- Buckminster Fuller

The grand show

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere;
the dew is never all dried at once;
a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising.

- John Muir

On the road

Fuzzy heads

Self

Our individual self finds its most complete realization within our family self, our community self, our species self, our earthly self, and eventually our universe self.

- Thomas Berry