Renew & Revive

The beautiful spring came; and when 

Nature resumes her loveliness, the human

soul is apt to revive also. ~Harriet Ann Jacobs

Beekeeper

When the flower blooms, the bees 

come uninvited. ~Ramakrishna

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell

Pragmatic & Passionate

Passion isn't something that lives way up in

the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day. ~Marcus Buckingham

Without vision, even the most focused

passion is a battery without a device. ~Ken Auletta

Persuasible Patience

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have

sails woven of patience. ~William Golding

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when 

you feel like stripping your gears. ~Barbara Johnson

Blustering Melodies

A few minutes ago every tree was excited,

bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious

enthusiasm like worship. But though to the

outer ear these trees are now silent, 

their songs never cease. ~John Muir

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me

until I have set them down in notes. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

Finding Summer

Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch

of lazy. lingering days, free of responsibility

and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt

for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends. ~Darell Hammond

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. 

To do nothing and have it count for something. 

To lie in the grass and count the stars. 

To sit on a branch and study the clouds. ~Regina Brett

Composition & Performance

The negative is comparable to the composer's

score and the print to its performance. Each

performance differs in subtle ways. ~Ansel Adams

We must remember that a photograph 

can hold just as much as we put into it, and

no one has ever approached the full 

possibilities of the medium. ~Ansel Adams