My sketchbook is a witness

of what I am experiencing,

scribbling things whenever

they happen.

*

-Vincent van Gogh

I may not have gone where
I intended to go, but I
think I have ended up
where I needed to be.
*
-Douglas Adams

Turn and face the

strange ch ch changes.

*

-David Bowie

We all do fade as a leaf.

*

-Isaiah 64:6

One cannot conceive anything

so strange and so implausible

that it has not already been said

by one philosopher or another.

*

-Rene Descartes

photo of the beloved jember by chalice

On the internet, nobody

knows you're a dog.

*

-Peter Steiner, New Yorker Cartoon

photograph by W. Eugene Smith

Only children know what

they are looking for.

*

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

8A slinky will stretch to 87 feet (flat).

8Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

8It takes about 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a season's worth of footballs.

What other dungeon is so

dark as one’s own heart?

What jailer so inexorable

as one’s own self?

*

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

If this is coffee, please bring

me some tea; but if this is tea,

please bring me some coffee.

*

-Abraham Lincoln

Unite my heart to fear your name.

*

-Psalm 86:11

Life is full of misery,

loneliness, and suffering -

and it's all over much

too soon.

*

-Woody Allen

All the beautiful sentiments in

the world weigh less than a

single lovely action.

*

-James Russell Lowell

I'd like to live

as a poor man with

lots of money.

*

-Pablo Picasso

Rene Magritte, The False Mirror

It's not what you look at

that matters; it's what

you see.

*

-Henry David Thoreau

photo by kyrie anna ruth

Be yourself.

Everyone else is

already taken.

*

-Oscar Wilde

(HT:Aubren)

I thought about how mothers

feed their babies with tiny

little spoons and forks so I

wondered, what do Chinese

mothers use? Toothpicks?

*

-George Carlin

Gustave Baumann, Cottonwood Tassels

A gentle tongue is a tree of life.

*

-Proverbs 15:4

You don't have to cook fancy

or complicated masterpieces -

just good food from fresh

ingredients.

*

-Julia Child

There is no frigate

like a book

To take us lands away.

*

-Emily Dickinson

(HT:Kyrie...for reminding me of My Father's Dragon)

If your ship doesn't come

in, swim out to it!

*

-Jonathan Winters

Consider the postage stamp:
its usefulness consists in
the ability to stick to one
thing till it gets there.
*
-Josh Billings

illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith

Philosophy begins
in wonder.
-Plato

Cultivate the habit of
early rising. It is unwise
to keep the head long on
a level with the feet.
*
-Henry David Thoreau

illustration by Peter Max

Love covers over a

multitude of sins.

*

-1 Peter 4:8

Plunge boldly into the

thick of life!

-Goethe

painting by Caitlin Schwerin

I was so naive as a kid I used

to sneak behind the barn and

do nothing.

*

-Johnny Carson

TIGER, tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

*

-William Blake (1757 - 1827)

illustration by sam brown

Finish each day and be
done with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Andy Warhol

Courage is being scared to death,

but saddling up anyway.

-John Wayne

Aim at heaven and you will get

earth thrown in. Aim at earth and

you will get neither.

-C. S. Lewis

By the fear of the Lord,

one turns away from evil.

-Proverbs 16:6

Life is a great big canvas;

throw all the paint on it

you can.

-Danny Kaye

I told my psychiatrist that everyone

hates me. He said I was being ridiculous –

everyone hasn’t met me yet.

-Rodney Dangerfield

Picasso, Three Musicians

Music produces a kind of
pleasure which human nature
cannot do without.
-Confucius

photograph by Jill Greenberg

The most wasted of all

days is one without

laughter.

-e. e. cummings

photograph by aubren sienna

The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new
landscapes but in having
new eyes.

-Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

Whoever gossips to you will

gossip about you.

-Spanish Proverb

In Christ are hidden

all the treasures of

wisdom and knowledge.

-Colossians 2:3

Say what you will about the Ten

Commandments, you must always

come back to the pleasant fact that

there are only ten of them.

-H. L. Mencken

Either that wallpaper goes or I do.

-last words of Oscar Wilde

Rock journalism is people who

can't write interviewing people

who can't talk for people who

can't read.

-Frank Zappa

illustration by daniel johnston

You can't break a broken heart.

-Daniel Johnston

This little ditty from the legendary artist and songster

goes out to Lowen who'll be seeing Daniel perform

in Nashville this Friday. Here's hoping Lowen will be

inspired enough by the experience to post a new entry

on his blog.

photograph by annie huntington

Nature is but a name for an

effect, whose cause is God.

-William Cowper

(1731 - 1800)

grandma moses, pond

Paintin’s not important.

The important thing is

keepin’ busy.

-Grandma Moses

Avoid the irreverent babble

and contradictions of what

is falsely called knowledge.

-1 Timothy 6:20

I can last two months on a

good compliment.

-Mark Twain

illustration by Tim Gough

No one is free.

Even a bird is chained

to the sky.

-Bob Dylan

Ellis Wilson, Funeral Procession (1899 - 1977)

They say such nice things about people
at their funerals that it makes me sad to
realize that I'm going to miss mine by
just a few days.
-Garrison Keillor

Wine is bottled poetry.

-Robert Louis Stevenson