4/30/05

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you. ~ Jennifer Morla
What moves you? How do you share it?

4/29/05

Graphic art is my secret garden, the place where I can get lost but also find territories I didn't even know existed. ~ Kari Piippo
What is your secret garden?

4/28/05

Design is instilling structure and soul into our naturally chaotic and unintelligible environment. ~ Laurinda Spear
This makes me think that artists and designers could be thought of as interpreters, taking the chaos that surrounds us and putting it into a form so other people can understand it. What are you interpreting?

4/27/05

A life in design is a difficult one - a life living in a state of heightened emotional awareness, throwing your entire soul into your very best work, which may be dismissed in an instant for the most trivial and petty of reasons. I can't think of anything else I would rather do more. ~ Robert Louey
What in your life do you feel this way about?

4/26/05

Who you are is someone who asked to be dropped off on earth so you could do something remarkable, something that matters to you, which you could not do anywhere, anywhen else. ~ Richard Bach

4/25/05

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. ~ Richard Bach

4/22/05 Happy Earth Day!

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth...is that it is alive... Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun. ~ Lewis Thomas

4/21/05

Why bother to live an unhappy life? ~ Richard Bach

4/20/05

A fledging leaps because it trusts its wings; a lemming leaps because everybody else is doing it. One’s an adventure into a new dimension, the other’s suicide. ~ Richard Bach

4/19/05

From time to time it’s fun to close your eyes, and in the dark say to yourself, “I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.“

Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there’s your world, just the way you built it.

~ Richard Bach

4/18/05

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.
~ Richard Bach

4/16/05

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. ~ Richard Bach

4/15/05

Shop for security over happiness and you buy it, at that price. ~ Richard Bach

4/14/05

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. ~ John Keats

4/13/05

Until death, it is all life. ~ Cervantes.

4/11/05

What we are matters. What we choose to be matters even more. ~ Robert Quinn, Change the World

4/8/05

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. ~ English proverb

4/7/05

All I have written seems to me like so much straw, compared with what I have seen. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

4/6/05

tiny weeds
growing through sidewalk cracks
whispering, “remember.”

4/5/05

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~ Chuang-tse

4/4/05

When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life.
~ Timothy Ray Miller

Please go see the beauty my friend Ginger has found in a most unexpected place. (Click view photos, you do not have to sign in.)
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=18zmcqsv.33ahx7qj&x=0&y=6gtczp

4/2/05

There is always something more to learn.
~ William Martin, The Sage’s Tao Te Ching

4/1/05

ya gotta love google! ;)
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/