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Flash Again and Again
“I don’t think one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you…” Isak Dinesen, Author of Out of Africa John took this picture at The Lucky Dog Ranch near Pagosa...
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Simply Needed
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed … We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge...
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And Sound Stopped
“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.” —John Steinbeck, Of Mice and...
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The Fast Train to Memphis
”It’s funny, when you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It...
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Racing to the End of the Earth
“There are some things in life that shouldn’t be given so much importance, if they don’t change what is essential.” Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate Taken in Big Sur, California as we...
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Beauty of the Earth
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature— the assurance...
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How Things Began
“And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother’s breast. For a long time that was the only word the baby needed. Ma, ma,...
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The Future Lives in a Cloud
“Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it...
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Of Sunshine and Leaves
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”...
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True Blue
“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull It was on a quiet beach in Nevis, West Indies that...
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No Matter Which Way
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” ― Lewis...
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Everything in Nature
“…. it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all...
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The Bravest Thing He Ever Did
“Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw...
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At Which One Might Look and Sigh
“I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one’s life and sigh.” ― Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains John has a way of capturing those sigh-inducing dreams of...
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The Most Extraordinary Things
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” Paul Coelho, The Alchemist Consider this a reminder to stop the rush of ordinary and open your eyes to...
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Grace as in Nature
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.” ……..Thomas Guthrie Scottish Clergyman 1803-1873 The sunlight at day’s end softens...
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Aspirations
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I want to live. To feel the joy of life, to separate oneself from burden, the angst, the anguish that we encounter every day. To say...
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