Why I do it...

"I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world."Ani Difranco

Chaos

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me.
I know some people are terrified of the bomb.
But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
Bob Dylan

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Connections....

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.
This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Collective Fear...

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Joy is not in things.....

"Joy is not in things; it is in us”
Richard Wagner

The World....

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything”
Albert Einstein

The Best Remedy

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Anne Frank

Look fear in the face...

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Conquer Fear

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Dorothy Thompson

Wish Someone Joy

"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness...
all the good things.”
Maya Angelou

the picture above is "Jump for Joy" by Angie Hoover

Each Friend..

"Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

The Earth...

"The earth laughs in flowers.”
E. E. Cummings

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Joy is...

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm
and our intelligence aglow”
Helen Keller

Playground

"The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.”
Natalie Kocsis

Laugh

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
Buddha

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Birds

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

Maya Angelou

Without Music....

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Dance in the rain...

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,
it's about learning to dance in the rain."

We Dance.....

“We don’t have ideology. We don’t have theology. We dance.” Shinto priest to Joseph Campbell

While I dance......

"While I dance I cannot judge,
I cannot hate,
I cannot separate myself from my life.
I can only be joyful and whole.
That is why I dance."
Hans Bos

Interconnected...

This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system.
What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place.

Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be.
Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands.

It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps.

For other living creatures beyond ourselves.
Marjorie Harris, In the Garden, 1995

Kindness...

Kindness can become its own motive.
We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

Someday....

Imagination...

Connections....

When we try to pick anything out by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir

Knowledge

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller

the aim of life...

Every Day

Make every day count.
Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.

The life I touch.....

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
Frederick Buechner

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Inner Light

Allow Your Own Inner Light to Guide You.
There comes a time when you must stand alone.

Words

Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Buddha

Integrity

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."
Zig Ziglar

Start from Now

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard

Perfect Virtue

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are...

gravity,
generosity of soul,
sincerity,
earnestness
and kindness.

Confucius

Courage

"It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
Mark Twain

All good things

"All good things are wild and free."
Thoreau

Reflections

"Your outer circumstances are but reflections of your inner thoughts."

Be an Original

Life...