Sun pours down like honey

You must ask for what you really want. -Rumi

One wonders A bevy of bookends A good view, summer green I love the massively heavy doors in old libraries where just pulling open that weig...

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom. - Rumi

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo ...

The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. - Michel De Montaigne 

"Of course it's true, but it may not have happened." - Patricia Polacco's grandmother

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.  - David Mamet, Boston Marriage

So speak encouraging words to one another.  Build up hope so you'll all be together in this, no one left behind. - I Thessalonians 5:11

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. - Alan Ginsberg

Three poems, the folding chair in the middle of the road, Equinoxious, and Yarn Struck, out in the deliriously quirky, literary journal, Dan...

Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe even when it is a tree that stands by itself. H...

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. - Joseph Joubert

You've come at last! 

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. - E.L. Doctorow 

A foggy evening following a chilly day of rain. Thoreau had his Walden, I have what are called the twin lakes by my city's high school. ...

"...I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved.  But don't get a swelled head over it.  A c...

Budding magnolia through my rain tapped car's roof window.

Not the global pond but the one here  by the high school, the little library a bright glow across the water.

If an artist doesn't separate himself or herself from the mainstream no work will get done. - Maxine Kumin