Today is our wedding anniversary; my husband and I have been married for fifty years. Literally fifty years. We only knew each other two weeks when we got married. At the time, it seemed like a good idea. Apparently it still is because fifty years later, here we are. Sort of. Even though we areContinue reading “Stories”
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H. L. Mencken
Bluefish Cove, Point Lobos I believe that an artist, fashioning his imaginary worlds Out of his own agony and ecstasy, Is a benefactor to us all. But the worst error we can commit Is to mistake his imaginary worlds for the real one. What I Believe
Joseph Kleitsch
Laguna on a Cloudy Day, (Reproduction) There is always a choice between the possible and the impossible. (Note to self: It is better to be tossed in your own sea than secured to anyone else’s anchor.)
Is This Farewell?
I have run out of things to post on this website. I have shared my favorite paintings and photographs. I have shared my favorite poems, epigraphs, and stories. At this point I would be forcing it just to post something. In the future, I may have something that I would like to share publicly. IfContinue reading “Is This Farewell?”
Ray Bradbury
Merced River, Yosemite All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It’s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I’ve won or lost. At sunrise, I’m out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you. Fahrenheit 451: Coda
William Butler Yeats
Whaler’s Cove, Point Lobos Come away, O human child! To the waters, and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. The Stolen Child (Note to self: I have no problem with guns – it’s the bullets I’m worried about.)
Alfred Sisley
Moret-sur-Loing (Reproduction) It’s not easy being purple in a red and blue world. In a black and white world, it’s not easy being a shade of grey. The thing is, there are a lot of maybes in a world of yes or no; A lot of sometimes in a world of always or never; AndContinue reading “Alfred Sisley”
William Blake
Utah in the Afternoon The Lilly of the valley breathing in the humble grass Answer’d the lovely maid and said: “I am a watry weed, And I am very small, and love to dwell in lowly vales; So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head; Yet I am visited from heaven, and heContinue reading “William Blake”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Headland Cove, Point Lobos I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything it’s due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too. Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ Notes from the Underground
George K. Brandriff
Cannery Row, Newport Beach (Reproduction) People tell themselves stories in order to make sense of the world. They believe the stories are true, even when they are not. (Note to self: The illusion of an illusion is that is not an illusion.) S. M. Hart ~ How to Crochet During the Apocalypse
Objects in a Bag 