(Yesterday’s rainbow.) There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

(American winterberry, a holly.) Red ‘rings’ inwardly with a determined and powerful intensity.  It glows in itself, maturely, and does not distribute its vigor aimlessly… ~ Vassily Kandinsky

(Magnolia blossom.) Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying.  It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

(Afternoon sunlight hitting the wall.) The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have...

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. ~ Russell H. Conwell I think I’m going to forever associate sunflowers with my mother’s illness and death.  Not in a bad way,...