"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." –Mary Kay Ash
Thoughtful Friday 11
"Listen! The wind
is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!" –
Humbert Wolfe
Thoughtful Friday 11
“Our life is frittered away by detail … simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau
Photo taken 9/30/2008, Ebey's Landing, Whidbey Island Washington
The rocks were already stacked.
By Chris Tindall
Thoughtful Friday 10
“You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.”
–Barbara Hall
Thoughtful Friday 9
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Stafford
Thoughtful Friday 8
Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie. ~Astrid Alauda
Thoughtful Friday 7
"Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon, Like a magician, extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together. " –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thoughtful Friday 6
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
– Henry David Thoreau
[Note: I took this photo at the family reunion, held on the farm we got married on in Toppenish, Washington. This photo was taken August 2, 2008]
Thoughtful Friday 5
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." -Confucius
Thoughtful Friday 4
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Leonardo DaVinci