To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. Susan Sontag Hendrik Grise was teaching commercial art classes at a small college in California when I first met him. During the heyday of fashion illustration…

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep . Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost Earlier this week, we had our first snowfall of the season. As I look out the window,…

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It’s the same with happiness, the very same…happiness doesn’t depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There’s a saying about it in Taoist ethic: “Whoever is capable of…

Tarot doesn’t predicit the future. Tarot facilitates it. Phillipe St. Genoux I have mentioned, in past blogs, my belief in synchronicity. A recent example involves Tarot. On three different occasions something relating to Tarot has been put in front of me. Through the years, I’ve learned to pay attention to these signs.  Tarot cards have…

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation Oscar Wilde. It’s been a few years since I visited Roatan. At that time, the island was just beginning to become a stop for cruise ships and hadn’t lost it’s charm, surrendering to commercialization. I remember listening to the guys in…

Stop looking at today through yesterday’s lens. Adjust your focus and create life in living color. Sanjo Jendayi Today is October first. Stores have been filled with Halloween candy and  decorations for weeks. Autumn is here. I have always felt that, at this time of year, one day we are carving pumpkins and the next…

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year, He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lately, I have allowed fret and anxiety to invade my day. Family worries, the…

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave. Blue Balliett To me, this is a perfect, succinct, definition of a list. As an aside; even if I didn’t love this quote, how could anyone overlook the fantastic name of the author. It conjures up parasols, crinolines and…

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality. Abraham Lincoln I admit to getting a head of myself, with”promises kept” when using it in reference to the 100 Day Challenge, which doesn’t officially begin until September 22. Maybe, just the plan to begin represents a promise. A commitment made.  I’ve heard lots of plans…