Walt Whitman
The morning-glory at my window satifies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~.~ I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ~.~ Behold I do…
Frederick Douglas
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ~.~
George Bernard Shaw
You see things; and say – “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say – “Why not?” ~.~ You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art,…
Desmond Tutu
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. ~.~ When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had…
Jean Cocteau
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ~.~
Kris Carr
When you change your mind, you can change your life. That’s a fact. ~.~
The Stone Pond
(Dibble’s Stage) There is a place. Well, there was a place, where the sunlight danced through the maple leaves and glinted off the water’s surface. My kid sister and I jumped from rock to rock….
South of the Border
In a Tijuana cat house doorway, that Spanish matron so old and frail. She about folded up and blew away. She checked your heirlooms, this jewel inspector; for things that crawled and things that didn’t….
Free At Last
“Free at last!” the preacher sang. What, dear God, have you made? Who can understand? We know, we think, the planets drive. We understand how microbes thrive. What came before is written down. “Free at…
Family History (Part XXXVII)
My family’s always been addicted to tobacco. Must be a lot of savage in me, get myself hurt sometimes — learning I’m doing something I hadn’t ought to be. Like, breathing fire, sucking smoke into…
