“Children’s Song” We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. And though you probe and pry With analytic eye, And eavesdrop all our talk With an amused look, You cannot find the centre Where we dance, where […]

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” –Josh Billings “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” –Roger Caras     Happy Thanksgiving! I have many things in this life to be thankful for. We all have struggles and pain, but if […]

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic – the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like. The eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity;  the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we are alone.” –Charles de Lint       I can spend hours sitting […]

  There is no place you can go to hide from the thoughts you keep contemplating  over and over inside your mind. There is no place you can venture where your true emotions will be concealed and the secrets of your heart will not show. There is no place in this whole wide world you […]

“If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water.” — Loren Eiseley On Saturday evening the sun will set on the last day of summer. When we awaken Sunday morning, the autumnal equinox will have given us the first day of fall. This season always leaves me a bit unsettled, as I […]

  “Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.”   –Victoria Erickson   The words of Victoria Erickson beautifully express how it feels when I stand and gaze at the incredible […]

      “Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”  –John Muir   Those who know me, know how much I love the southwestern United States. I used to […]

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film, is captured forever. . . it remembers little things long after you have forgotten everything.”  –Aaron Siskind     Recently I was at a get-together with some friends and the topic of photography came up. I was asked why […]

One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. Happiness is a journey, just […]

    “The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep. A mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation.  Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen. . . as the whispering drumbeat repeats. . . […]