The Artist Within

 It is said that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, which is to say that the satisfactions of life lie in our own perception.  The happiness we pursue is ours to define.  The rainbow we seek is ours to color in.

Stray Thoughts

 "Ah, the quest for fame -- the idea that you can find happiness by increasing the number of strangers who know who you are."

"I think the  attraction, for many people, of religion over science is that religion has done the better job of sticking to its story."

"I believe this -- that you can have knowledge enough to be called wise but lack the necessary doubt."

Just Sayin'

 "You might sometimes convince me by arguing from greater experience, but you will seldom convince me by arguing from greater revelation."

From Our Resident Curmudgeon

 "Man is the only animal who lives in a zoo of his own construction."

"No one ever took free advice who had a chance to pay for it."

"The requirements of living conspire every day to overwhelm the purpose of life."

"There are people who are like a vehicle whose turn signal didn't flip off, and they go through life forever signaling a turn they don't make."

"As a rule of thumb, figure that the words you say will be misinterpreted in as many ways as they can be rearranged."

Happy People

 "While there's pleasure to be found in good food and drink, it is not happiness.  What you discover about happy people, in fact, is that they are usually late for meals."

The Fruit Untasted

"Life is more a basket of kumquats than a bowl of cherries, a recollection of so many things you kumquat find a moment to do." 

September Morn

I love the meadow  in the dew

Of early day as dawn sifts through

The last gray strands of morning mist,

And wild flowers, softly kissed,

Turn their faces to the light,

And now the meadow glistens bright,

As nighttime's shapeless shadows flee

Into the shade of a linden tree.