“What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else.” ~Fredrick Buechner
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
“We are the music-makers,/And we are the dreamers of dreams. . . ” ~Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Winter Greenery
“What we call the beginning is often the end/And to make an end is to make a beginning./The end is where we start from.” ~T.S. Eliot
Tuileries Garden, Paris
“It is in a dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.” ~Alain de Botton
Autumn Sky, St. Louis
“Does the sky stop? It doesn’t stop, it just stops being one thing and starts being another.” ~Maggie Smith
Orchid Show, St. Louis
“In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.” ~Novalis
Boston Public Garden
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed.” ~Wendell Berry
Autumn Leaves
“No one warns you about the amount of mourning in growth.” ~Te V. Smith
Japanese Garden at Missouri Botanical Garden
“We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now.” ~Eckhart Tolle
Wooded Path, Missouri Botanical Garden
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~C.S. Lewis