La Redécouverte

Nov 25

                                  Dublin, New Hampshire 2009

                             Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum;
                                        benedicta tu in mulieribus,
                      et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus [Christus].
                                          Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
                                        ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
                                nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

Nov 18

“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
— Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat)

Nov 15

““You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.”
— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl) ”

Nov 14

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid)

Venice, Italy July 2005

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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

To love is to be vulnerable.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever. ~ Psalm 23

Prague, Czech October 2006

Nov 13

They Imagine A Careless Life

My cousins wedding. Dublin, New Hampshire June 2009

“Postcards From Italy”

Taken in Florence, Italy 2005

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”

              ~ Alice, “Alice in Wonderland”

Random art done in the art district of San Antonio near the Mad Hatter tea house.

Nov 12

sunsurfer:

“Victorian House, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania

photo from kelli”

This is now my dream house. My life is now dedicated to living here.