"Got no deeds to do, No promises to keep. I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep. Let the morning time drop all its petals on me. Life, I love you, All is groovy" ~Simon and Garfunkel

"When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels." ~Freeman

"My life is my message." ~Mohandas Gandhi

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ~Winnie the Pooh

“Grow where you are planted”

"I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was." William S. ~A Midsummer Night's Dream

"May you live every day of your life. " ~Jonathan Swift

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." ~ Frank Zappa

“Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.” ~Fuller

"The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared." ~Collins

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names." ~Henry David Thoreau

“No one knows better than a sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys were. No one knows better than she...”

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." ~Charles Dickens

"Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended." ~Robert Frost

"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine." ~Mary Shelley

~ There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey. ~

"I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now."

"Our real journey in life is interior; it is a matter of growth, deepening, and an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts." ~ Thomas Merton It has been the winter of all winters for such things. I have read more, written more and created more this past season than in any other.  Spring, with all of her nuance, is fast approaching and I am ready. Thank you to those near and far for your enduring support.  You mean the world to me. Peace, ~dlb

Thank you Fiske Library for your support with Kassidy's exhibit. The exhibit  was well received and Kassidy had a wonderful time. “The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2010/02/18/go/6933417.txt http://www.autismspeaks.org/

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day." Letters to a Young Poet ~Rilke

"I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful." ~Frederick E. Perl

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together." ~Anais Nin

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke