End of Summer

Summer is coming to an end.

I want you to know, Becca, how much I appreciate you!

You made this an amazing summer for all of us!

Love you Ducks!

Hawk or Human

No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe,
be it hot or cold,

 be it hawk or human.
~Jack Nicholson~  

Language of Friendship

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  

~Henry David Thoreau~

Worn Out

When you have worn out your shoes,

 the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. 

 I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.  

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The Best Things In Life

The best things in life are nearest:  

Breath in your nostrils, 

light in your eyes, 

flowers at your feet, 

duties at your hand, 

the path of right just before you.  

Then do not grasp at the stars, 

but do life's plain, common work as it comes, 

certain that daily duties and daily bread 

are the sweetest things in life.  

~Robert Louis Stevenson~

All's right with the World

 

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, 

and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.

  A few of those days and you can become drunk

 with the belief that 

all's right with the world.  

~Ada Louise Huxtable~

Ever On

The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. 

Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, 

pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. 

And whither then? I cannot say.

~J.R.R. Tolkien~

Man

Man, 

when you lose your laugh

 you lose your footing. 

 ~Ken Kesey~

The Whole Existence

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... 

and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.  

Everything is simply happy.  

Trees are happy for no reason; 

they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents 

and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance.  

Look at the flowers - for no reason.  

It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.  

~Osho~

Learn in Life

 

What most people need to learn in life

 is how to love people and use things instead 

of using people and loving things.

~Unknown~

 

Knock Knock

 

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. 

Milton Berle

Summer Afternoon

 

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon;

 to me those have always been the two 

most beautiful words 

in the English language. 

~Henry James~

Pulled

When one feels pulled to do a particular thing, 

when one has passion for a certain life path, 

karma is always involved.  

In such an instance, 

when the goal is worthy and makes one happy, 

one should continue on that same life path.  

Just because the elephant cannot carry you anymore 

doesn't mean you should give up your goal.  

Continue down the path that makes you feel fulfilled.  

Those who continue on an unrewarding path 

for the sake of only monetary gain 

are displaying a lack of trust in life.  

 ~Kwan Yin~

Be Nice

It's nice to be important, 

but it's more important to be nice.

  ~Author Unknown

Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
~Joyce Kilmer~

History

Each time history repeats itself, 

the price goes up. 

 ~Author Unknown~

Soulmate

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.  

~Robert Brault~

Love

Love is, 

above all, 

the gift of oneself.  

~Jean Anouilh~

Every Beat of My Heart

Happiness pulses

 with every beat 

of my heart.

 ~Terri Guillemets~

Delight

 There is no season such delight can bring
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
~William Browne~

Only

Only as high as I reach can I grow
Only as far as I seek can I go
Only as deep as I look can I see
Only as much as I dream can I be.
~Karen Ravn~

Friends

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.  

~Eustache Deschamps~

Be

If you

 want to 

be happy, 

be.  

~Leo Tolstoy~

More Useful

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable 

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

~George Bernard Shaw~

Joy of Living

I find my joy of living 

in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, 

and my pleasure comes from 

learning something. 

 ~Auguste Strindberg~

Reinforced

 My connection to the earth is reinforced through the rhythm of the waves.  

~Mike Dolan~

We are Crazy

The only way to have a life

 is to commit to it like crazy.  

~Angelina Jolie~

And We Camped....

and had a really really really good time!

Camping Day Three

To find the universal elements enough; 

to find the air and the water exhilarating; 

to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; 

to be thrilled by the stars at night; 

to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - 

these are some of the rewards of the simple life.  

~John Burroughs~

Camping Day Two

What I like about camping is you can get really dirty.  

Either you're all by yourself, so no one else sees you, 

or everyone you're with is just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares.  

~Anonymous~

Camping Day One

It's that time of year again!

The group camping trip!

All Riiiight!

Just like last year and the year before, 

the next four days will bring you pictures from the previous year's trip!

Enjoy your weekend, I know that we'll enjoy ours!

Peace and Love!